The ground was icy as my partner, my son and I made our way to the center of Berlin two Sundays ago.
The protests, some of the country’s largest in decades, emerged everywhere: not just in liberal cities like Berlin, Hamburg and Munich but also in many cities in eastern Germany, where the far right is particularly strong.
The far right, we know, is built on racist fantasies of ethnic homogeneity, and the AfD has long been deemed extreme.
Germany, at last, has woken up.
It’s that in many parts of the country, a general sense of discontent has tipped over into disdain.
Locations:
Berlin, Potsdam, Germany, Hamburg, Munich