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ELI5: Why is Germany taking so many refuges?

Is their general population low and they just want to increase it? Or are they just doing a good deed?
gpt
As is the case in most "Western" states, our population is shrinking, yes. But we're not planning on keeping them here, really. So mostly we just feel obligated to help refugees in general, as humans, as one the richest nations, also at least in part because our older generations, those people that are in power, still suffer from a guilty conscience. We've always taken a lot of migrants, so it's nothing new in principle, only in quantity.