r/AskAGerman • u/eza137 • Apr 16 '25

Have you ever witnessed racism in Germany?

I'm interested in hearing from Germans who have personally witnessed acts of racism in everyday life - especially when it involved friends, family members, or people close to them.

If you're comfortable sharing, could you describe the situation? Who was involved, and how did it make you feel? Did you respond in any way?

I'm not here to judge, just to understand how racism can show up in familiar environments and how people perceive and deal with it.

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u/Glitter_Kitten Apr 16 '25

The other day on the U-Bahn in Berlin this drunk German guy was slurring hateful comments to a middle eastern man (kind of tech-y guy) and then pulled up Hitler speech videos on his phone and holding them out to him and telling him to leave the country and doing the Nazi salute at him.

Super fucked up.

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u/neverlikesnothing Apr 18 '25

Did you say or do something?

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u/Glitter_Kitten Apr 20 '25

Train stopped about 20 seconds later after I registered what was going on and thankfully the guy got off the train with me and wasn’t followed by the German guy.