Photo Gallery Nearing Capacity
A small army of volunteers has quickly formed in Germany to help care for the huge numbers of refugees currently arriving in the country. But the country's asylum system is struggling to keep up. Here, refugees are forced to camp out in the train station of Flensburg on Thursday for lack of space at local reception facilities.
Tents set up for refugees in Spandau in western Berlin. Many such tent cities have sprung up across Germany in recent weeks. But more permanent housing will have to be found for the newcomers before winter sets in.
Berlin's registration center has, at times, been overwhelmed by the numbers of newcomers. Here, refugees hoping to apply for asylum sit outside the Central Registration Office for Asylum-Seekers in Berlin after the office closed its doors for the night.
Once they get inside the gate of the Berlin facility, there is still a long wait. Here, refugees wait to be registered in the German capital.
Officially, German expects 800,000 asylum-seekers to arrive in the country by the end of the year, though some forecasts go even higher than that.
This garbage can just outside the central refugee registration center in Berlin is covered with the name tags of dozens of volunteer helpers. Thousands of Germans have turned out to help the incoming refugees, but some are still warning that the mood in the country could shift.
Refugees are distributed across the country upon arrival. Here, a makeshift shelter in a convention center in the state of Baden-Württemberg.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been particularly vehement in her embrace of refugees, an approach that many wihin her party do not agree with.
