THE “patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident”, known as Pegida, still march.On April 13th 10,000 rallied in Dresden, their base, brandishing anti-foreigner slogans, as they have done on 22 previous Mondays since October. This time they featured an international addition: Geert Wilders, leader of a xenophobic party in the Netherlands. “In my eyes, you are heroes,” he told Pegida. “Islam does not belong in Germany.”

At least Pegida’s followers are not violent. That cannot be said of the 47 cases in the first three months of the year in which Germans have physically attacked asylum-seekers or their abodes, according to Pro-Asyl, a group that helps refugees. In 2014 the police counted 162 such attacks by neo-Nazis. Much of this new xenophobia can be explained by a surge in asylum-seekers coming to Germany from Kosovo, the Middle East and other trouble spots. Germany takes in more asylum-seekers than any other country: 200,000 last year, a fifth of the global total. Some 300,000 may come this year. The asylum-seekers are spread across Germany. Some end up in less tolerant places.

One is Tröglitz in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany. Unemployment has run high since its main employer, a chemical plant, closed soon after unification in 1990. This year the town was due to take in 40 refugees, but a neo-Nazi party, the NPD, organised marches against their arrival. When the mayor, Markus Nierth, spoke out in favour of the asylum-seekers, the NPD prepared to start marching past his house. Mr Nierth resigned last month. Over Easter, arsonists set fire to the building meant to welcome the refugees. The NPD denies involvement, but investigators assume neo-Nazi motivations. When another local leader said the refugees would nonetheless come as planned, he received threats that he would be guillotined.

That both Tröglitz and Dresden are in what was East Germany has revived a long-running controversy. Is xenophobia mainly found in the country’s formerly communist part? East Germans, it is said, have fewer opportunities and less contact with foreigners than their western compatriots, and harbour more resentment.

“Tröglitz is everywhere,” retorts Reiner Haseloff, premier of Saxony-Anhalt, suggesting that it is wrong to talk of east-west differences. There have been attacks on asylum-seekers in both east and west. Yet Tröglitz is not everywhere, a chorus of others replies, including Thomas de Maizière, Germany’s interior minister. Even if attacks occur all over Germany, they have been disproportionately frequent in the east. And nowhere else has a politician stepped down for fear of neo-Nazis.

Researchers at the University of Leipzig have found that xenophobia appears most prevalent in Saxony-Anhalt, with 42% of its population susceptible to it. Next comes Bavaria in western Germany. But the three states that follow are all in the east, where about 30% agree with xenophobic sentiments. The western average is 20%.

Xenophobia scares not just refugees but other foreigners and minorities. It also worries those thinking of moving to Germany. The debate over asylum has thus become conflated with one over immigration in general. To compensate for an ageing population and shortages of workers, Germany needs to attract more foreigners. It often talks up its Willkommenskultur, its welcoming culture. This has led to talk of liberalising immigration laws. Canada and Australia are the models, with their point systems for foreigners with certain degrees, languages or competences. Mr de Maizière does not think new legislation is needed. But he has urged German firms to do more “immigration marketing” abroad.

Images of Pegida, Tröglitz and the like will not help. As Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, says, the world is now watching to see how the German mainstream reacts.

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wozu er dich erschaffen
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und dir vertraut sein höchstes Pfand,
drum magst du wohl aufwachen

Die Wahrheit wird jetzt unterdrückt,
will niemand Wahrheit hören;
die Lüge wird gar fein geschmückt,
man hilft ihr oft mit Schwören;
dadurch wird Gottes Wort veracht’,
die Wahrheit höhnisch auch verlacht,
die Lüge tut man ehren

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das tut man jetzt gut preisen......