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a German flag waves and a protester holds up a sign that says "tolerance Nazi"

Is there a ‘Nazi emergency’ in the German city of Dresden?

Extremism

The number of far-right extremists in Germany is up by a third in 2019. “Everyday there are police reports about swastikas and Hitler salutes; it has become a part of everyday life,” said Max Aschenbach, who proposed the “Nazi emergency” motion in Dresden.

Participants take part in a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West", in Dresden January 5, 2015.

Never mind the cross, Germany’s ‘anti-Islamization’ movement isn’t really Christian

Belief