A lot really right after everything that had happened in the previous ten days you know roughly ten thousand people show up Five Thousand to protest the nazi attacks doesnt really suggest to me that theres any sort of wave of nazi sentiment in the country at the moment to the point that people are going to go out onto street the. Thats why i thought it was fascinating that when they had the concert which i think was on a monday you had sixty Five Thousand people there as you said and yet for this other protest which was really much more political which was on a sunday you only had a smattering of people show up valor their final these calls since the riots. For people to take a stand to stand up is it naive to think that a concert can make a difference i think that for the people who live there who are on the left wing spectrum is actually important to see that they have support within the German Society. However of course this is one concert one day as matthew
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A prominent groups the Concerts Motto was we are more it began with a Moment Of Silence for the victim of the attack the prompted the initial protests a young man who was stabbed allegedly by migrants now in detention. The far right can germany defeat its demons thats our topic this week on quadriga and here are our guests its a pleasure to welcome Matthew Carney jake back to the program hes chief europe correspondent for politico and he says germanys demons are necessary and will never be overcome the question is whether germanys political elite is drawing the bright lessons from history the events of the past week suggest theyre not and its a pleasure to have valerie who theyre with us shes Political Correspondent in the Berlin Bureau of spiegel online and shes been reporting on cam thats the f. T. Community is gradually merging with right wing extreme the. Groups in germany she
says if the moderates in the party fail to take a stand against this development they will inevitably be d
candidates these two very different kinds of interpretations they look a lot like the polarization that we re seeing in a lot of other places in the west germany has long prided itself on the kind of consensus tradition in its politics in fact the governing coalition is composed of two rival mainstream parties which you say that s breaking down and we re seeing the same kind of divisions opening up here as we have let s say in the u.s. . absolutely i think that ken it s really is kind of a crucible of that i think it s less about the town of chemist s which is a really is a small city and it s more about what people project on to what happened there and you know if you if you go back and look at the way that this whole thing unfolded you know it started out as a murder by a couple of refugees apparently of a german citizen and that s what triggered all of this violence and i think the
candidates these two very different kinds of interpretations they look a lot like the polarization that we re seeing in a lot of other places in the west germany has long prided itself on the kind of consensus tradition in its politics in fact the governing coalition is composed of two rival mainstream parties which you say that s breaking down and we re seeing to same kind of divisions opening up here as we have let s say in the u.s. absolutely i think that that kemp it s really is kind of a crucible of that i think it s less about the town of chemist s which is a really is a small city and it s more about what people project on to what happened there and you know if you if you go back and look at the way that this whole thing unfolded you know it started out as a murder by a couple of refugees apparently of a german citizen and that s what triggered all of this violence and i think the
candidates these two very different kinds of interpretations they look a lot like the polarization that we re seeing in a lot of other places in the west germany has long prided itself on the kind of consensus tradition in its politics in fact the governing coalition is composed of two rival mainstream parties would you say that s breaking down and we re seeing the same kind of divisions opening up here as we have let s say in the u.s. absolutely i think that that kemp it s really is kind of a crucible of that i think it s less about the town of chemist s which is a really is a small city and it s more about what people project on to what happened there and you know if you if you go back and look at the way that this whole thing unfolded you know it started out as a murder by a couple of refugees apparently of a german citizen and that s what triggered all of this violence and i think the