While there's a certain truth to the statement that Neo-Nazis are somewhat more common in East Germany, that's not really the whole story. West Germany also ha

While there's a certain truth to the statement that Neo-Nazis are somewhat more common in East Germany, that's not really the whole story. West Germany also has its fair share of Neo-Nazis and closet racists, the biggest difference being that West Germans had a couple of decades more time to "tone it down" compared to East Germans. In West Germany many people, to this day, have very negative sentiments towards Eastern Europeans, Eastern Germans included. They are just more careful about how and when they voice them, something the East Germans haven't quite mastered to the same level yet. Mostly due to an element of curiosity because "darker skinned people" simply had not been that common in the Soviet states, so they are rather blunt on such topics in comparison to West Germans who have learned to "hide" it a little bit better.