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Hope And Hate: How Migrant Influx Has Changed Germany

Mutti's big gamble: an asylum seeker takes a selfie with former German leader Angela Merkel in 2015 (Credit: AFP)

Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.

Many came during the huge migrant influx of 2015, when a million people arrived in a matter of months -- mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

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