ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: In Germany, police detained dozens of Neo-Nazi supporters trying to hold a rally Saturday. The arrest came as hundreds of Germans took to the streets of Dusseldorf in anti-Nazi protests, decrying an increase in racist attacks. Extremists are believed to be responsible for recent attacks on immigrants, crimes that many Germans want stopped. CNN's Chris Burns now.</s>CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A protest of anger and sorrow at a train station in Dusseldorf, where a bomb last week injured 10 immigrants, six of them Jews, one of them a pregnant women who lost her leg, and her unborn child. And estimated 1,200 people showing their outrage at an attack blamed on right-wing extremist, amid an upswing of such violence, especially in former communist Eastern Germany. The attacks, mainly against immigrants, have prompted officials to promise a crackdown. Authorities closely watched a small far right demonstration in the town of Toashtet (ph), south of Hamburg. Another was banned near Weimar in Eastern Germany. More than 100 far right supporters, including neo-Nazi skinheads, were detained as about 1,000 police worked to prevent that demo from taking place. Racist attacks and far-right demonstrations are more frequent in the east, where unemployment is 17 percent, twice the national average. Many youth are out of the school and out of work. But there is debate over how far to go in cracking down. The government is considering banning the far right National Democratic Party, on NPD, but, it's argued, that will simply turn the organization into a clandestine movement, or it could change it's name. Far right parties have no seats in parliament, though they have won seats in some local elections. More likely is more aggressive prosecution and tougher jail sentence as Germany fights an image many here thought was a thing of the past. Chris Burns, CNN, Berlin.
Attacks on Immigrants on Rise in Germany