Dresden was infamous for a few years with the PEGIDA rallies, these routinely pulled thousands of people in the beginning [1], and eventually federally. But eve

Dresden was infamous for a few years with the PEGIDA rallies, these routinely pulled thousands of people in the beginning [1], and eventually federally. But even then, the numbers were orders of magnitude less than what happened the last week, and after a few months it all but fizzled out. Dresden is the last holdout of PEGIDA left, with a few hundred people in attendance every few weeks, and Munich held out with literally 3-5 people up until Covid hit. [1] https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/pegida-und-die-zahlen-wie-gross-ist-pegida-wirklich/11244960.html https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/pegida-und-...