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Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel, Markus Söder - they are all enemy images of those who demonstrated against the Corona measures on Saturday in Berlin.
A civil protest was announced.
Then there were numerous derailments on the streets like this poster campaign - organized by an AfD district association.
According to the police, a total of around 38,000 people took to the streets in the capital.
Including many right-wing extremists and right-wing groups.
That bothered surprisingly few among the other protesters.
Ann-Katrin Müller, Der Spiegel
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If you asked the demonstrators why they are actually here, even though the AfD, NPD, third way called for this demo, then they actually had no good answers, but they either downplayed it and said:" Well, we are only here for the cause "or have put forward arguments like:" Well, everything is Nazi these days. "And it was actually the case that there were small groups where there were no right-wing extremists, so to speak, of course, but right around them. So you just had to turn around, then you saw someone who optically fit into the picture. They wore the appropriate t-shirts. They wore the appropriate tattoos, they wore flags. They weren't hiding. You just see it but on the imperial flags, those red-white-black. You can see it in anti-Semitic symbols. There were anti-vaccination opponents who wore a Jewish star that said vaccinated. One can also look at the conspiracy ideologues
discover the "Q" because they follow this QAnon theory of the deep state. "
The protest was not only directed against current corona measures.
Numerous demonstrators made no secret of their rejection of the state power and the government.
Ann-Katrin Müller, Der Spiegel
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The policemen were often asked to leave the resistance when they were somewhere, were asked to do so in chants. They also shouted" Join us ", so that they would change sides, so to speak. In
front of the American and Russian embassies also shouted and chanted peace treaty several times. That sounds so friendly peace treaty, but there is a completely different ideology behind it. There is behind it that Germany is still occupied, and one wants to free oneself from it. That is part of the Reich citizen ideology, which says, one is not yet a free Germany.
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The danger posed by some groups was shown on Saturday afternoon.
Demonstrators and right-wing extremists overcome barriers and advance to the stairs of the Reichstag building.
In retrospect, the organizer distances himself from the campaign - but nothing more.
Ann-Katrin Müller, Der Spiegel
"In fact, there was no real distancing from right-wing extremists or right-wing extremist ideas. There were no statements against racism, against misogyny, against all of these issues. On the stage in front of the Reichstag there were several speakers who really clearly identified right-wing extremist ideas, Among other things, an ex-NPD cadre who pointed to a policewoman and then said to her that when they were in power, women would no longer be policemen, because women were only there to give life and not to take it . And brought up this old understanding of women and what they have to do there. And there was cheers and applause and no distancing. So for all those who were on the demonstration and who now want to say that they are no longer right You can only say that there are no excuses, you could see the right-wing extremists on every corner and you really have to think about who you are walking with on the street. "