Haitham A. cannot remember his first night in Germany. He was too exhausted from the journey across the border of Belarus and through Poland. His blank-out started after crossing a lake near the Belarus border by clinging to a friend who could swim, and then walking 40 kilometres through the woods. “I was so bad, I couldn’t move,” he said, when they finally got into a car that would take them to Germany. “And I remember that my heart, it was beating so much.” He doesn’t remember the drive through Poland along back roads to avoid detection; he doesn’t remember being dropped on the streets of Le…

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