Ashref Nouriki, an asylum-seekers from Iraq, says “they don’t care for the families, they don’t care for the kids… they are just pushing and pushing”.
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Hadeel Waez, a Syrian asylum-seeker told Swedish broadcaster SVT “we have children and a pregnant woman, it is too cold and there are no shops and no doctor”.
Nouriki told reporters “Please help us!”
The German chancellor has been criticised by allies and political foes and many say the influx has left Germany struggling to cope.
Crammed behind metal barriers, migrants have been pushing through and jumping over, with a few people collapsing and getting trampled in the chaos.
A spokesman for German chancellor Angela Merkel, who has been criticized by Central European leaders for her open-doors immigration policy, reiterated the Berlin government’s opposition to border restrictions.
The buses head north to Graz, Vienna and Graz, another step on the journey to Germany, the final destination for most of the refugees travelling across Europe.
On Wednesday, a Bavarian state lawmaker said Merkel’s decision not to apply European Union rules in her handling of the region’s migrant crisis violates German laws.
But European countries still can’t agree on how to distribute and resettle the first 120,000 refugees that have already arrived.
“We think we think it is better to take them from the camps rather than taking them from inside Europe”.
At the Austrian-German border, diplomatic spats were low on the migrants’ list of worries.
He spoke after talks in Athens with Greek foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias.
The flow shows no sign of abating despite the rapid approach of winter, according to the global Organisation for Migration, which reported the arrival of more than 9000 people in Greece over the weekend.
From there, they go to Austria with many continuing on to Germany.
It has been observed that Slovenia is the main entry point for migrants heading for Austria.
In September Austrian authorities sent about 2,200 soldiers to assist in introducing tougher border checks amid the growing refugee crisis.
Representing the conservative OeVP party, she added the situation risked escalating as people were forced to wait in freezing temperatures for hours before being allowed to cross from one nation into another.
At least 11 migrants died in the eastern Aegean Sea Wednesday in five separate incidents, including a large shipwreck from which 242 others were rescued by the Greek coast guard.
The second boat sank off the coast of Didim, a few 450 kilometers (280 miles) south of Canakkale, on route to the island of Samos.
About 85,000 refugees have poured into Slovenia in the last 10 days, after Hungary closed its border with Serbia and Croatia.
Further down the migrant trail, Slovenia has been struggling to cope with the influx – almost 90,000 have arrived in the last two weeks, since Hungary sealed its frontier with Croatia.
All the rescued migrants are now headed to Italy, the Italian coastguard said.
Berlin police say they have arrested a suspect in the disappearance earlier this month of a 4-year-old Bosnian migrant boy, and have found the body of a child in the suspect’s vehicle.
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Merkel has resisted calls to set a ceiling, arguing that the crisis can only be solved by tackling its root causes: the war in Syria and poor conditions for refugees in countries such as Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
