The numbers are extraordinary. Routinely more than 100,000 people, sometimes, according to organisers, as many as 300,000.
Ordinary Germans, for the most part not the usual crowd you would see at political rallies, on the streets through the cold and wet of a north German winter expressing their opposition to the growing political power of the far right.
It is not just the surging electoral popularity of Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) that is spooking them, but a revelation made by an online publication that senior AfD people were involved in discussions as to how to expel millions of immigrants from Germany based on race.
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