This is a 20 year old article and no we don't have "nazis kill foreigners with some regularity". Yes hate-crime happens, but you make it sound like an active war zone where you have to be afraid of your life if you are "foreign" looking.
> I'd wager for tourists it's very safe in Germany.
Unless they're Black or "look Muslim", in which case I'd stay the fuck out of Eastern Germany. There's more recent reports as well, e.g. [1] - and it's been a massive issue for Eastern Germany, especially since the rise of Pegida [2].
But don't get me wrong, Western Germany also has its no-go areas, especially anything rural. The large cities tend to be decently safe from far-right violence - but even the smaller ones can be dangerous. Just last week a friend of a friend and her child was attacked in Landshut near Munich by a drunkard (and no it's not hearsay, there's a police report).
Regarding your knowledge on this topic your recommendation is an insult.
Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here, I don’t make this up look it up.
All kinds of outdoor festivities are undergoing brutal security regulations, making them unprofitable and many don’t even happen anymore because of this.
Not even mentioning the knife crimes which are absurdly.
Nazi crimes are the lowest they have been in history. Most problematic are the antisemitic tendencies from the Palestinian movement at the moment.
> Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here,
Did you forget (or not hear) the Magdeburg x-mas market car attacker was an AfD supporter and antiislamic? And the Mannheim one was a German gardener with "Reichsbürger" connections?
It doesn't quite make for snappy headlines, so a lot of people never hear these details…
The Madgeburg terrorist is a Saudi Arabic refugee which dislikes the Islam and not really an AfD supporter, but mentioned that he liked some position regarding the Islam critique the party has.
The Mannheim terrorist is indeed a German but I guess that the exception confirms the rule.
Overall all extrem attacks if from right, left, foreigners are an issue and need to be adressed accordingly. The problem which the Germany people have with the current state of affairs is that the bad behaving asylum seekers mostly the ones from the middle east get a soft treatment to say the least when they commit heinous crimes and the deterrence of appropriate punishment through law and order is not given.
You call someone who has lived in Germany for 18 years a refugee, and dismiss his AfD sympathies. That says nothing about him and everything about you really.
Try to look a little bit beyond your polarized bubble. I'll be happy to meet you halfway there.
Well he is official an political refugee in Germany because of his anti islamic activist activity, his origin country wants to prosecute him. He was until his arrest an anti islamic activist and had a very active social media presence in which he lamented about the way Europe and especially Germany are handling the refugee crisis which are mostly Muslims. In this context he reposted and referred to some AFD politicians and their position on the crisis.
Does that make him an AFD supporter?
Afaik his social media was so messy that people would connect him to various even contradicting things. That the big press settled with AFD supporter after they found some repost is lazy and misleading.
I'd wager for tourists it's very safe in Germany.