Far-right politicians in Germany have sparked a great deal of controversy by promoting the term ""Bombenholocaust"" ("holocaust by bomb") to describe the raids. "Der Spiegel" writes that, for decades, the Communist government of East Germany promoted the bombing as an example of "Anglo-American terror," and now the same rhetoric is being used by the far right. An example can be found in the extremist nationalist party "Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands" (NPD). A party's representative, Jürgen Gansel, described the Dresden raids as "mass murder," and "Dresden's holocaust of bombs". This provoked an outrage in the German parliament and triggered responses from the media. Prosecutors said that it was illegal to call the bombing a holocaust. In 2010, several demonstrations by organisations opposing the far-right blocked a demonstration of far-right organisations.