Roger Cohen of The New York Times made the following comment about Germany's soccer team:

"When I lived in Germany, a Social Democrat once told me that the country’s ultimate victory over Hitler would lie in the reconstitution of the Jewish community, then being pursued by luring Jews of the former Soviet Union. I always thought that was a vain, slightly kitschy idea. But the Germany of Özil and Aogo is such a victory over the Big Man who destroyed Europe." Germany is now the main choice of African and Asian migrants seeking asylum from torture or economic immobility.