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 than 50 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland arrived in several large convoys in Dresden. More than 30 buses traveled together in a convoy from Berlin. The buses were used to bring the demonstrators as close as possible to the neo-Nazi gathering points. After getting out of the buses the demonstrators formed demonstrations that split into smaller groups when they encountered police lines to trickle through it or circumnavigate it, while heading to several blockade points, that had been announced earlier that day by "Dresden Nazifrei". About 12,000 peaceful protestors blocked the streets around the gathering point of the Nazis