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German neo-Nazis mark WWII raid in Dresden
Dirk Mueller-Thederan
DRESDEN, Germany
Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:13am EST
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DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - About 5,000 neo-Nazis gathered in the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday to stage a provocative funeral march remembering German victims of the Allied air raid that flattened the baroque city 65 years ago.
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In the past few years, the February 13 anniversary of the destruction of Dresden, in which 25,000 people were killed, has become a focus for neo-Nazis who describe the blanket bombardment as a "bombing Holocaust."
About 7,000 people were expected to join the march this year, which would make it Germany's biggest far-right march since 1945.
Police fear clashes with thousands of anti-Nazi protesters, 10,000 of whom formed a human chain in the city center both to remember victims of the war started by Germany and to show their opposition to far-right groups.
Some 5,000 officers have been brought in from across Germany to help stop trouble.
"The atmosphere is very heated between the two camps and we face a very difficult task today," a police spokesman said.
At Dresden's Neustadt station, where trains packed with Jews departed for the Auschwitz concentration camp, several hundred neo-Nazis, clad all in black, gathered.
Some held pre-war German flags and a voice shouting "Strength and Honor" blasted out of loudspeakers.
"We are gathered here to remember one of the biggest war crimes of World War Two," Kai Pfuerstinger, deputy head of the JLO Youth Corps East Germany far-right group, told the crowd.
A debate about whether breaking public morale through the wave of raids was justifiable has rumbled since the bombing, which started on the night of February 13, 1945, and flattened the city. The defeat of Hitler's Nazis was imminent.
The attacks, by British and U.S. bombers, used incendiary bombs which created an inferno that ripped through streets, burning and melting people and buildings alike.
Although a mainstream debate has taken place in the past few years about the extent to which Germans can view themselves as victims of a war they were responsible for, there is little sympathy for the views of militaristic neo-Nazis groups.
"February 13th, the day of the bombardment of Dresden, is abused by the right as a myth of sacrifice," said Wolfhart Goll of the Nazi Free Alliance in Dresden.
"It is important that we stand up against the Nazis. We want to stop the march and take the fun out of if for them so they don't come back."
Dresden has only in the last decade been restored to its former glory, complete with its trove of cultural treasures.
Senior politicians from Dresden and the state of Saxony and a representative of the Central Council of Jews laid wreaths at a cemetery where the victims of the bombardment are remembered.
(Writing by Madeline Chambers)
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