Refugee crisis arouses fear and fury on Germany's far-right

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By Michelle Martin RIESA, Germany (Reuters) - While many Germans have welcomed the record numbers of refugees reaching their country, the new arrivals have unleashed fear and fury in small eastern German towns like Riesa, a center of far-right support in a country ashamed of its Nazi past. In Riesa, a distinctly ordinary steelmaking town about 135 km south of Berlin, several hundred have marched down the cobbled streets at two radical right-wing protests in the last month to vent their anger at what they see as "foreign infiltration". Many people in the town, where the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) has 6.3 percent support - about five times as much as it got in the last national election - fear they will have to pay for the rising numbers of asylum seekers arriving here.




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