Germany to expect 750,000 refugees in 2015 - reports
The government in Berlin had earlier forecast that 450,000 asylum seekers could arrive in 2015, but is now set to increase that to 650,000 or higher.
Germany has seen a wave of migration from Syria and the Balkans.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said more countries in Europe should share the burden.
"It is unsustainable in the long run that only two EU countries, Germany and Sweden, take in the majority of refugees," he told German daily Die Welt.
Up to 80,000 people, many of them Syrians, are expected to seek asylum in Sweden this year, but Germany has become the most popular destination.
Squatting on a kerb, Barakat smiles as a volunteer hands his young son and daughter some second-hand clothes.
The family are Yazidis and fled Iraq. "They were killing all the women - what were we supposed to do?"
Nearby, hundreds of people queue outside a grey concrete building. Every so often an official comes out and shouts instructions through a megaphone.
This is Berlin's reception centre, where refugees come to register for housing and benefits. But it is volunteers who provide food, water, clothing and medical help. A doctor holds a makeshift surgery in a tent.
"It shouldn't be volunteers doing this," he says. "But the authorities never expected this many people to arrive so suddenly."
As I leave, I pass an old lady slowly pushing a trolley towards the centre. "I've come to donate clothes," she tells me. "Why wouldn't you help these people?"
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