Neo-Nazi marches in Dresden religious congregations participated was attended by members and supporters of the neo-Nazi party NPD. In 2008 both anti-fascist groups that operated nationally and liberal parties, concluded that the annual Nazi march in Dresden was no longer a regional issue, but had way outgrown this limited importance by becoming the biggest gathering of Nazis in Germany. Thus, both groups organized protest against the Nazi marches in Dresden nationally. The first did so with the formation of national coalition of antifascist groups. "No Pasaran", an antifascist slogan that originated during the Spanish Civil War, was its program and name. "This year we
Culture in Dresden of their activities and influence. Friedrich Schiller published his Ode to Joy in Dresden which he began in Gohlis near Leipzig in 1785. E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella "The Golden Pot. A Modern Fairytale" is set in Dresden and was published in 1814. "The Golden Pot" has parts of realistic descriptions of Dresden and fades into a surreal world of myths. Hoffmann witnessed the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Erich Kästner grow up in Dresden. He worked off his youth in Dresden ("The Flying Classroom") and his military training in an artillery battalion in the Dresden Albertstadt garrison (poem "Sergeant