Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden In the 21st century, Dresden has been the site of some of the biggest gatherings of Nazis in post-War Germany. The annual right-wing marches in the beginning of February peaked in 2007 and in 2009 with about 6,500 participants. With the marches a broad coalition of right-wing groups, old and new Nazis declared to remember the bombing of Dresden by Allied Forces at the end of World War II on the weekend after the anniversary of the bombings on February 13, 1945. In contrast to other cities in Germany resistance against the marches from civil society
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden and Wunsiedel were successfully blocked by anti-fascist protestors or forbidden by the authorities. The annual marches in Dresden had grown to an important event for the Nazi scene in Germany. On this day the numerous divisions in the scene and its problems were forgotten and the scene could see itself as powerful. Through commemorating those who died in the 1945 bombing of Dresden, a positive reference to National Socialism could be established to strengthen the own Nazi identity. In 2007 neo-Nazis from the "Freie Kräfte" criticized the remembering as ritualized and hollow and organized their own regionally planned and mobilized