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 the Nazi-march in February 2009 provided the setting for the "Dresden Nazifrei" alliance in fall of 2009. It was announced on an "action conference" organized by "No Pasaran" in Dresden. The conference announced a public call to block the Nazi march. It said: "We will use the tactic of mass blockades in which everybody can participate to prevent the Nazi-march" and it called for the creation of a "framework to plan and coordinate the necessary actions". This framework was created with the official announcement of the creation of the alliance "Dresden Nazifrei" (Dresden without Nazis) in the first week of