I don’t think the German government has any clue what they are unleashing. The German “far right” has been growing and metastasizing ever since re-unification. It is especially popular in the East, where a fascist system is not far from what many grew up with and are already familiar with.
Also, due to the “hate speech” laws in Germany, the neo-nazis are much more sophisticated than the few we have over here. Here, they dress like crazies with their kooky klan outfits or swastikas, and everyone ostracizes them. Over there, it’s illegal for them to do that stuff, so they fly under the radar and blend in with soccer hooligans, heavy metal fans, bikers, etc. They also put on suits and take up more civil rhetoric of “acceptable” causes, like anti-immigration activism. So they are able to pervade much more deeply into mainstream society.
If the German government continues their present course, they’re going to awake that sleeping dragon, and the public will most likely flock to them because they’ll be the only ones actually proposing to do anything about the problem.
They are trying to stay within the law. The first Pegida hymn was to the same tune as Deutschland uber Alles, which was to the tune of an ancient German hymn. They were criticized for that, even though it was legal. Also, because the hymn mentioned Jesus Christ, it was attacked as being anti-Jewish.
So they wrote another hymn, to another tune, with NO WORDS, just humming. I ask you.
They have a rough row to hoe over there, with no First Amendment and so many PC things being illegal because of their history.