Afghanistan five years after the collapse: Germany between aid efforts and deportations

The world is looking at Afghanistan in shock - in August 2021. German politicians too. They see people screaming, so desperate that they hand babies over walls. They hear gunshots and see frightened faces. In a few hours a country will collapse. A country that has also supported Germany for more than 20 years and invested billions in it. The then Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) called it “bitter, dramatic and terrible”. She promises those who cannot be flown out not to forget her. [...] The Taliban have ruled Afghanistan again for five years. In the country in which Germany has been involved for two decades and which is now almost politically forgotten.