Today all over Germany thousands of people protested against the rise of right wing politics and the far right AfD.
In Berlin an estimated 350,000 took part, the originally planned route had to be changed because of unexpected masses and people were redirected.
Public transport was on the verge of stalling.
@jkanev every 😷 in the crowd is outstanding commitment against the fascist eugenics of letting #covid rip. Proud of that masked person in the bottom right of the first pic
Das war eine tolle #ldk24 liebe Brandenburger GRÜNE.
Wir von der @netzbegruenung haben heute schon vorzeitig den Stand geräumt, um es noch zur Demo gegen Rechts nach Berlin zu schaffen. Falls Fragen offen geblieben sind, könnt ihr uns aber jederzeit hier oder unter netzbegruenung.de/ erreichen #wasjetztzählt#b2101#AlleZusammenGegenDenFaschismus
Bei der Demo in Berlin war es wirklich voll. Und es war einiges an Bewegung drin. Aber kein Gepöbel oder Gefluche, die Leute versuchten zumindest, freundlich zu sein, schenkten sich auch mal n Lächeln. Zumindest da, wo ich stand, war das so. #b2101
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Berlin today to send a message that the rise of the fascist Alternative for Germany party won't be tolerated.
Wir mussten von Mehringdamm nach Mitte laufen, weil man nicht mehr in die U-Bahn reinkam. Das ganze Regierungsviertel war voller Menschen. Berlin stabil! #b2101
It was a lot less crowded than some of the Ukraine protests I went to two years ago (and not just the largest). Organizers in Munich said they had 200,000 people; here it couldn't have been anywhere near that.
Nearly all signs were anti-AfD or anti-extreme right in general, like "Hass ist keine Meinung" or "Demokratie ohne Alternativ" or a sign of giving AfD the finger or multiple "fuck AfD" signs. A few said "Vielhalt ist schon" or such.
@Alon I have the feeling that German facism/ right-wing extremism is always worse than in other European countries. Terrible things like those said on the meeting in Potsdam by “famous” members of a big German populist party wouldn’t be possible in other countries by their counterparts there. The ugly German is uglier than the ugly French. Maybe I sense this wrong, but I have this feeling. Look at German history and German complexes.
@electricmonk That's an extremely recent thing. AfD was one of the most moderate right-populist parties in Europe until the Syrian refugee migration wave in the second half of 2015, when it went neo-Nazi. Subsequently, other extreme right parties sought to dediabolize themselves - not to actually moderate (Le Pen is still surrounded by Holocaust denialists) but to pretend to be more normal; AfD hasn't bothered. And then there's just the fact that there's less social acceptance of that shit here.