(19 Jan 2015) Around 300 protesters from the so-called 'Berlin Patriots against the Islamisation of the West' (BAERGIDA) gathered in Berlin on Monday.
The anti-immigrant protests have been drawing international attention and increasing fears that xenophobia is on the rise again in Germany, whose Nazi past has long made such sentiments taboo.
One demonstrator said he felt "alienated by too many foreigners" coming into Germany.
The Berlin group is similar to the one in Dresden, called PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West.
A Dresden demonstration was cancelled on Monday after police reported there had been death threats against one of PEGIDA's founders.
About 25,000 people attended last week's PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, police estimated.
The original PEGIDA protest in Dresden has led to the protest of similar groups in other German cities, but these haven't drawn anywhere near as much support, and there have been much larger demonstrations against them.
In Berlin on Monday, around 600 people held a counter-demonstration to condemn the anti-foreigner and anti-Islam rhetoric.
The demonstrators jumped up and down and chanted "say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here".
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