On February 13 , 2010 , neo-Nazi groups gathered in Dresden to stage a " mourning march " on the 65th anniversary of the bombing of the city in World War II , which they describe as a " bombing holocaust " . Until 2010 , the march , organized by the National Democratic Party and the Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland , was the largest yearly demonstration organized by neo-Nazis in Europe . On February 13 , 1945 , the city was bombed by Allied planes , resulting in the death of an estimated 25,000 inhabitants , and official ceremonies to commemorate the dead take place in Dresden every year . Coordinated by the alliance Dresden Without Nazis , which organized several rallies that took place in the area , between 10,000 and 15,000 demonstrators surrounded the train station of the Neustadt district of Dresden , where the neo-Nazi demonstration was supposed to begin . In the city center , an additional 10,000 people took part in a human chain that symbolically protected the city against the Nazis . While about 6,000 Nazis held a rally in a confined space adjacent to the Neustadt train station , more than 5,000 police separated the opposing groups . Police then declared the blockades to be intractable , did not allow the neo-Nazis to march , and ordered them to leave the area by train
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2010 Dresden anti-fascist blockade