Anti-fascism demos intensify before German election

By Candice Novak
COLOGNE, Germany – Most in the crowd of German liberals, progressives and just-plain-scared residents were too young to have experienced rule under the Third Reich, but the threat of extreme-right political parties here has triggered a vehement response. The home-made banners reading “Nazis out!” and “Never again fascism,” first seem like cries [...]

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Random finding on the cafe-lined streets of Aachenerstraße in Köln.

“drink, be obedient”

The scene at the Dom on a Friday afternoon. “Liebe ist für alles” above a homeless man cradling his dog and “Drink, be obedient,” scrawled on the marble walls of a near-by shop.

anti-fascism rally, Cologne

Translation: “Pro-Köln” — the anti-muslim party in Nordrhein-Westfallen — “is stupid.”

rally at the Dom, Cologne

The scene before an anti-fascism/anti-racism rally in front of Koln’s pollution-blackened gothic Dom.

garage art in Cologne

A couple of garage-grafitti examples from the Köln suburbs.

Bonn busted campaign ads

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