Love for one's country

Hating to admit it, but maybe that is the key factor in the process of the anti-refugee rallies and why in West Germany they assume that masses of people are xenophobic in the East: The occupation through the Soviet Union carried a different spirit of partiotism into the mentality of that territory.
It's more like the kind of patriotism which people on Russian territory hold up.
People don't necessarily join the demonstrations, which the definitely right sector arranges, because they're against black or different-looking people coming to their country, they're against a state overextending itself and talking it to a bagatelle.
They don't complain about the refugees getting so much help which they actually want in an act of envy - they're against a state mistreating its own people and now inviting masses of foreigners which in the moment of the situation get equipped with better civil rights than them.
A regular person couldn't cross a border without propper documents and then be treated like "okay, we don't lock you in jail for it". A regular person also doesn't get a place in the kindergarten off-hand, they've got to register themselves as soon as they know there's a baby on the way at best to get one promptly when the child reaches the age.
They are against a government not acting in their interests, burning itself out, telling them stories why it can't help them and telling them lies about the prosperity that citizens can't find.
Literally, those people grumbling behind the garden fence, they actually want to save their country.
They expose a vital interest that their surroundings don't go down and they've got to live in total chaos.
They don't care who comes there, it is just that the people which come don't integrate, they cause unrest in the community by the habits and culture they bring with them and the state has nothing else to do than rewarding this by giving them a roof over their heads, supply of food, supply of clothes, giving them a small amount of pocket money, and there's nothing they ever realistically need to present a justification for. If someone attempts to throw them out of the country they disappear and settle somewhere else.
There's no resident citizen which can do so and later is treated like that.
It's rather a "one people, one population - one set of rules for everyone" - and if the state can't enforce it, what kind of state is it?
East Germany already has a kind history behind it to tell their state if they're doing something wrong. And, no matter how bungled by external forces the result was, the spirit of resistance is still alive.
It has become a historical experience that went down into mentality of people on a certain territory - and this is what now claims "we want no refugees, we want a good life ourselves first that you advertise to us day by day".
It is a vital expression of "we care for where we live because we can't run away and we want to protect this area from deteriorating finally completely - and this seems like an issue that is not presented correctly by the media and this is not an issue properly understood by the people living on the former West German territory. Because they never went that far to get a whole government down and to get changes in a system to save their surroundings from sinking into a total mess.
In that aspect it is that the communism of the Soviet Union managed to settle down a kind of patriotism on German territory which doesn't predominantly live on xenophobia, racism and snobbery to be sublime above everyone else.