Summary

The term Hungermarchen comes from a film from the 80s (The March) about a famine in southern Africa. It develops in an unusual way because a charismatic leader emerges who decides that if the West will not feed them, they will march across Africa to die on Europe's doorstep. They accept that they will die but at the same time say that their death should not be in vain. They want to show the Europeans what starvation looks like up close. So they make a colossal march that is joined by thousands of poor people from all over Africa who want to die in the streets of Europe. Europe panics and has no idea what to do. The film ends with a wall being built down at Gibraltar and thousands of people sailing across in boats.

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