Yesterday there was a nazi demonstration in dresden. as İ think, there is to little translated to english, I started to do the first part of an article of redok . Not a perfect translatıon for sure, but hopefully a way to make some information accessable for non german speaker. later on İ will translate part two and then do some remarks, as some are not my personal pov.

Dresden. Compared to recent years significant less neonazis joined the right extremist staging of the 62. anniversary of the bombing of Dresden. In the evening according to media reports 1.700 to 1.800 right wing extremists gathered for a march through Dresden behind the Semper opera. More than 5.000 people demonstrated against the rightist using the death people.

Unlike in recent years the organizing rightists choosed a day in the week instaed of the weekend next to the anniversary. Therefore a decreased nummber of partificating was being expected. Two years ago according to officially announced numbers 5.000 joined the rhight wring march. Neonazis announced 7.500. the year before police announced 4.200, right wing extremists claimed 6.000.

The today`s manifestation was`nt able to start without a delay of one and a half hours, due to 300 neonazis refusing to be searched by the police.

Earlier in the afternoon about 5.500 people took part in the manifestation “Geh denken” (a word game: “Gedenken” means “remembrance”, “Geh denken” equally spoken means “go to think”) against the right wring extremists. Days before Dresdener putted a hughe banner near Postplatz completed the advertisement “Dresden welcomes its guests” with the slogan “… but we do without neonazis”. On Schlossplatz the slogan “Diese Stadt hat Nazs satt” (a maybe not voluntarily chosen word game to be translated “This city has plenty of nazis” or “This city is fed up with Nazis”) was formed by lightened candles.
The driving force organizing the nenazis` compulsary event is the “June Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland”, founded 1991 as an official youth organization of the expellee organizaton “Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen”. The Orgaization, which got closer and closer to NPD over the years, is considered to be “partly right wring extremist” by some authorities of the Verfassungsschutz (German inner secret service agencies). The “Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen” got annoyed by the raving group. It divorced from the organization in 2000. In November 2006 JLO had to change its name to “Junge Landsmannschft Ostdeutschland”, forced by “Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen”.
This Year Neonazis founded a “Aktionsbündnis gegen Vergessen” (~action alliance against oblivion”), dominated by Neonazis of “Freie Kraefte” (”lit.: “Free Forces”, highly violent and autonom organized groups of Neonazis), to organize the “teariness march”. Those (”Freie Kraefte) insisted on marching in the week while JLO wanted to keep marching at weekend.

Beside the march Neonazis wanted to perform an “action week”, using the vague expression “creative” for their schedule of actions. Accoring to their own announcements AgV performed a closed meeting yesterday evening, visited by 60 people, among those visitors from Spain, Austria and England. The keynote speaker was Peter Naumann, an active Neonazi since 1970 who was convicted for an attack with explosives and the attempt to found a terrorist organization and violation of the regulations on arms and explosives to a sentence of four and a half year, in 1988.
The year before the NPD excluded him due to his terrorist activities. After being relaesed from prison he was accepted as member again and worked as consultant for the member of local parliament Klaus-Jürgen Menzel since the 2004 elections in Saxony. After Menzel being excluded from the NPD`s parliamentary group and leaving the party, Naumann became “Parliamentary Consultant” of the NPD`s parliamentary group. Yesterday the convicted bomb planter spoke about the allied bombings in World War 2 in a revisionist manner.