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In East Germany, too, more than a hundred thousand people demonstrated against the right.
Pictures of these “courageous people” show who has courage.
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Germany at the weekend against right-wing extremism (which also infiltrated the farmers' protests).
In Munich, the protest on Sunday (January 21st) had to be canceled because there were too many participants.
According to police estimates, up to 100,000 demonstrators also came together in Berlin with anti-right signs.
A total of 100,000 people took to the streets in Leipzig and Dresden.
The number of participants in protests against the right-wing in Saxony exceeded all expectations.
Thousands also protested in many smaller cities in eastern Germany.
According to the police, 6,000 people in Erfurt campaigned against the right, in Halle there were 16,000, in Chemnitz 12,000 and in Görlitz 2,000.
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Demos against the right: “Happy birthday to all anti-fascists in the East”
A demo participant from Bonn writes a few sentences on Threads about the protests in East Germany: “In the Rhineland it's simple: Here the AfD has four percent.
None of us know Nazis.
But what if your neighbor, your colleague, your classmates are fascists?
Then you need true courage.
Chapeau to all anti-fascists in the East.”
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Other people are also just “really happy,” as many people demonstrated against the right-wing in East Germany over the weekend and thank them.
“In addition to the impressive numbers in the big cities, I am particularly pleased to see so many people in smaller towns taking to the streets against right-wing extremism.
And especially about the brave people in East Germany,” extremism expert Pia Lamberty agrees.
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