The mass demonstrations across Germany on Saturday, 31 October 2026 have not gone without notice. The presence of tens of thousands of young demonstrators across the country have excited comment and attention through a very broad spectrum of the public and in politics, but not necessarily for the right reasons. The mass media, eager for a good selling story, but without wishing the hard work involved in research and of reporting the background to the demonstrations, has concentrated on the few outbreaks of violence around the periphery of some of the marches. It is this side of the many events which has garnered headlines, and been taken up by those…