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News/nbc_eckardt_andy.thumb.jpg" style="border:1px solid #666666;" vspace="0" hspace="0"></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="boxBI_3159408"><div class="textMed"><b>Andy Eckardt</b></div><div class="credit">Producer</div></td></tr></table><table width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxF_3159408"><tr><td class="boxFI_3159408"><div class="textSmall"></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table>MAINZ , Germany — As teams such as Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago have arrived in Germany for this year’s World Cup they have been greeted to a hero's welcome from their local hosts. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Large delegations, complete with their local hosts waving national flags, have greeted the foreign teams. In the northern city of Celle, the Angola team was even presented with modern technical equipment for a new hospital by their German hosts. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Some welcomes for international guests, however, have not been so warm.</p><div class="aC"><div class="textSmallGrey w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCMSN&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Over the last several months the motto of the prestigious sports tournament, "A Time To Make Friends,” has been heavily tarnished by a number of neo-Nazi attacks on foreigners, particularly those of color. The incidents have left German officials scrambling to reassure visitors that the 32-nation soccer tournament, which kicks off on June 9, will not be marred by violence. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><b><strong>Recent attacks<br></strong></b>The string of recent attacks, coupled with a recent study suggesting there is an uptick in the number of neo-Nazis in Germany, has left many foreigners worried.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>On May 26, three dark-skinned men from Mozambique and Cuba were beaten by eight assailants, ages 19 to 29, in the eastern German city of Weimar. That attack came just weeks after an Ethiopian-born man was brutally clubbed into a coma by two neo-Nazi thugs in Potsdam, the capital of Brandenburg state (a part of the former East Germany which surrounds Berlin). And in another incident, a Kurdish-born German politician was attacked in his district of Berlin-Lichtenberg. Officials believe that all attacks were racially motivated.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>The attacks seemed to confirm a controversial comment made by a former government spokesman about "no-go-zones,” which he said exist in some rural areas and districts of eastern German cities. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>"There are small and middle-sized towns in Brandenburg and elsewhere where I would not advise anyone who has a different skin color to go. He might not leave alive,<em>"</em> Uwe-Karsten Heye, who now heads an anti-racist organization, told a German newspaper.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Adding to fears, a recent report from Germany's Bfv domestic intelligence agency says that the number of neo-Nazis in Germany rose to 4,100 last year from 3,800 in 2004. 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