Germany is anxious. The Germans are worried.
Over the weekend hundreds of thousands of Germans demonstrated across the land objecting to the rise of far right xenophobic groupings and the ever growing popularity of the right-wing AfD (Alternative for Germany).
People who never before came out on the streets were demonstrating, parents with their children, young women and men, who are not in any political party, took part and they were out on the streets from Hamburg to Munich. In Berlin over 100,000 demonstrated, another 100,000 in Munich and Cologne. And more peaceful demonstrations are planned for the coming week.
They are determined it will not happen again in Germany.
Later in the day the leader of the CDU, Friedrich Merz complimented the demonstrators on the new Caren Miosga programme aired on public broadcaster ARD.
While praising the demonstrators, he said that if one out of every 10 people who were on the streets at the weekend joined a democratic party, they could put a stop to the rise of the far-right and halt the rise of the AfD.
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