Organisers of the protests estimated that there were 1,4 million participants in Germany over the weekend.[1] German police had a more conservative estimate of 900k participants.[2]
In the city where I'm staying (Cologne) 80k people showed up. That's almost one in ten for a city of a million. That is impressive.
It's easy to say these numbers are not large enough for a country of 83 million. What has to be taken into account, is that it happened all in a matter of a week and nationwide. These were not protests that were advertised and organised long before.
In the city where I'm staying (Cologne) 80k people showed up. That's almost one in ten for a city of a million. That is impressive.
It's easy to say these numbers are not large enough for a country of 83 million. What has to be taken into account, is that it happened all in a matter of a week and nationwide. These were not protests that were advertised and organised long before.
[1] https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2024-01/muenchner-demo-gege...
[2] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2024-01/proteste-rec...