Berlin 16-02-2010
Around 11,000 people in Dresden formed a human chain on Saturday to stop the neandrathal German neo-Nazis from staging a march - ostensibly to remember victims of the Allied air raid that raised the city 65 years ago.
The loser right-wing neo-Nazis, had gathered at Dresden’s Neustadt railway station thinking they could with impunity stage a rally. Other right-wing ding-bats from Scandinavia and other parts of Europe showed up to verify that their dangerous infantile dis-order is transborder.
However large numbers of anti-neo-Nazi protesters, mostly citizens of Dresden -across all political party lines – turned out in freezing temperatures and prevented the far-right extremists from getting into Dresdens center.
The 13th of February 1945 was the day in which large parts of the historic centre of Dresden were destroyed – 25,000 people were killed in a blanket bombardment in which there was no apparent direct industrial or military target.
It has thus often been used as an example to show how the Anglo-American side also terrorized the German population.
The air attacks by British and U.S. bombers, carried incendiary devices which created a fire-storm, an inferno which burned everything in its wake – literaly melting both people and entire buildings .
The city has over the last 15 years restored its historic centre to its former glory, including the rebuilding of the famous Frauen Kirche.
Politicians of the main-stream political parties from the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony along with a representative of the Central Council of Jews laid wreaths at a cemetery where the victims of the bombardment are remembered.
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