Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden and left-wing groups had been relatively weak for years. With the emergence of the "Dresden Nazifrei" alliance (Dresden without Nazis), the Nazi march was blocked from marching for the first time in 2010 by thousands of demonstrators, again in 2011 and prevented entirely in 2012. While part of East Germany, Dresden was in the so-called "valley of the clueless" ("Tal der Ahnungslosen"), with its citizens out of the reach of the Western radio and television that citizens elsewhere in the East were able to listen to illegally. Dresden continued to be different after the German reunification; while most states in
Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden demonstration in Dresden, by 2010 this had grown to a "week of action" in which Nazis handed out leaflets and did little agit-prop actions. Thus in the following years Dresden had one small demonstration on the evening of 13 February or a day before organized by the "Freie Kräfte" and a big demonstration organized by the JLO on 13 February or the next Saturday or Sunday if 13 February was not on a weekend. On the radical left, political and ideological infighting between one faction then dominating in Dresden, the "Anti-Germans" and anti-imperialist and other anti-fascists, divided and preoccupied the