Two neo-Nazis were caught urinating on children on a Berlin train

A family was racially abused and urinated on by two men on a Berlin subway train on Saturday night, local news sources say.

The family of one woman and two children of around five and 15, appeared to be of south-east European origin, witnesses said. They were travelling on the S-Bahn when two men got on the train in the city centre.

Witnesses said the men shouted "we're the master race" and "Heil Hitler" before calling the family a "pack of asylum seekers" and telling them "you're not Aryan". One of the men then urinated on the family.

Horrified onlookers called the police, and the 32- and 37-year-old were arrested at the next stop. They were found to have been drinking heavily when breathalysed.

The men were already known to police as violent right-wing sympathisers with criminal records, The Local reports, and were charged with racist abuse and causing bodily harm. Police have appealed for the family to come forward.

The incident comes at the same time as several anti-immigration rallies were held in eastern Germany over the weekend.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the right-wing protests and is currently holding talks with French president François Hollande to draft a new, Europe-wide asylum policy for the thousands of refugees fleeing poverty and war in their home countries.

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