The New York Times had an article yesterday about the persistent decline of population in parts of eastern Germany, a decline so pronounced that wolves have returned to the area along the Polish border.
That region has seen some of the most horrible warfare in modern times and has been fought over in a systematic way for 5oo years or so. Some of Hitlers armies assembled there preparing to invade Poland. The Red Army swept in from the other direction 4 years later. Napoleon came though in 1812. A partial list of nations who have fought in this area are: Germany, Poland, Russia, Britain, Austria, France, Prussia, Sweden, and the United States.
And what was settled? The area now returns to the wolves!
They probably deserve it more than we do.
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