“Merkel is neglecting her own people. She is obsessed by refugees,”

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Many are sceptical about their new neighbours who, after a long trek from Syria, find themselves living in a rustic province next to the Polish border. “We don’t need more foreigners. There have to be limits,” Bernd, 56 – who declined to give his second name – said, standing on the edge of the anti-refugee gathering.

Bernd said he was not a Nazi or a “radical” and had voted at the last election for Die Linke, Germany’s hard-left party. He worked with Russians and Poles but now worried that the retirement age would be raised from 63 to 67.

“Merkel is neglecting her own people. She is obsessed by refugees,” he said. He added that he did not have sympathy with young Syrians fleeing conscription: “I did my military service in the GDR, guarding the green [non-Berlin] border with West Germany. We stopped criminals from escaping to the other side.” He added: “I never deserted.”

'There have to be limits': mixed feelings from Germans over refugees
 

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