| Summary: | A report on the hundreds of thousands of people arriving in Europe who have fled war or poverty in the Middle East in hopes of reaching Germany. 60 MINUTES follows migrants from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan who are paying Turkish traffickers to take them across the Aegean Sea in overcrowded boats to land on the Greek island of Lesbos. Once in Greece, migrants are fingerprinted and registered and then they travel through Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria, to end up in Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes asylum seekers, but the influx is overwhelming. Includes interviews with: Kirk Day, emergency field director for the International Rescue Committee on Lesbos; Heinz Schaden, mayor of Salzburg, Germany; Katharina El Masri, project management for Save Me Munich; Wolfgang Panzer, mayor of Unterhaching, Germany; and asylum seekers: Ahmed Dosum (through translator), Dr. Bassam al-Tarifi (through translator), and Mohammad Pathlavay.
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