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After Racist Rally and Arson, German Town Accepts First Refugees

A small German town that became a byword for xenophobia when neo-Nazis rallied against a planned asylum center and the building was torched two months ago accepted its first refugees this week.

With shy smiles, two families from Afghanistan and one from India attended a media conference Thursday in the nearby town of Naumburg in the former communist East, where local officials sought to stress that the region welcomes foreigners, despite the bad press.

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