as a foreign languages student, the sister Uni of the UEL was Leipzig, where they sent me for a year. Deutsche bank gave my bank account number to some young Polish woman working there, so I lost a lot of money. In the event, I had many friends in the Asylum seekers house, what the Germans do is send up a van full of food everyday, the refugees can take as much as they liked and 40M and money for baby stuff etc. They wanted to feed me as I was really poor at the time though a mature student 49 years old, and to be honest, they had food in every corner, the cupboards were filled with bread and stuff, under their beds, everywhere, eventually they began giving me some of this stored food as they realised the Germans would not let them starve, but I was.I was very grateful. A lot of people were taking advantage of the system, the germans laughed as they told me, some easterners (Europeans and Russians) come regularly, have a ''little holiday'' get filled up with food and then the police take them over the border and a bit later, back they come. Saxons are generally easy natured and just laughed about it- I was grateful, as I never got to see the Manager of the Deutsche Bank all year. I was aghast, my father had been from Leipzig, g'dad died first world war gassed and gran was bombed out - and went back to Kothen, where she had come from, I was there in '46 and got very ill with malnutrition. Seemed like they wanted to starve me out there!