Fighting the Far-Right and Neo-Nazi Resurgence in Germany
Violent anti-immigration protests in the city of Chemnitz were dwarfed in size by a counter-protest. But they still speak to a dark and growing trend in German politics.
The eastern German city of Chemnitz had, by s , “never seen anything like” it: Thousands of protesters, led by far-right and neo-Nazi groups, rioting and flashing Nazi salutes in what German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned as an effort to “hunt down” foreigners. But even these massive protests, which broke out last week in Chemnitz in response to the alleged murder of a German man by two immigrants, were dwarfed by a counter-protest in the city on Monday night. “Refugees welcome,” chanted tens of thousands of protesters in direct rebuke to the far-right chants of “foreigners out”
