Today the neo-nazi march through the historic city of Dresden is one of the most important in germany. The march reached a temporarly hight in 2005 on the 60th anniversary when 6.500 neo-nazis attend to the rally. Not only the large number of demonstrators make these event so important for the german neo-nazi scene. The rally and the theme unify the whole right-wing scene of germany, from conservative party members, right wing students, the nazi-party “National-Democratic Party” up to militant neo-nazis corps and skinheads. Additonally these rally is very important for the local nazi-scene in the state of saxony and the “National-Democratic Party”, which is part of the parliament of saxony since 2004.

In the political debate on the german history and rememberance “Dresden” were made to a symbol for “german suffering” and “german victims” during the second world war. These political discource has had an important influence on the public perception. Today, in any debate about germanys nationalsocialistic history “german victims” and “german suffering” during the war dominate the discours. In the public perception the victims of the national-socialism i.e. the murdered jewish society of europe, the victims in the countries which were occupied by the nazis and all other “non-german” minorities which suffered by the german war, are step back behind these “german victims”. This is the essential political dimension of debate in the german society. In this context it remains to state that the destroying of german citys by the allied forces was politically and military necessary to end the war and the german nazi-terror over europe.

The german neo-nazis overstate this argumentation very far since they speak about the “Bombenholocaust” (lit. “bombing holocaust”) which mean that they compare “Auschwitz” and the Shoa with “Dresden”.

Ten years of antifascist restistance and criticism

Since the neo-nazis demonstrate in Dresden they were confronted with antifascist resistance. These protests contained and transported different political contents from year to year. First of all the antifascist activities adress the neo-nazis, but also the offical german behavior concerning the debates about germanys nationalsocialistic history. Therof it is necessary confront and to criticize the official german commemoration in Dresden. Additonally some antifascist groups tried to cross out and to honourize the role of the allies in the second world war.

In the last three years all the antifascist counter actitivties had become more and more successful. It was possible to to block and to obstruct the neo-nazi march. Even more antifascists could be interested and mobilized to Dresden. In February 2007 the neo-nazis were not able to “walk-through” as in the years before.
They were stopped and their rally runs to a desaster. This is the basis were we want to start in 2008 and we won`t stop until the neo-nazis march willl not be take place anymore. We want to resist the neo-nazis march and stop their revisionist, nationalist and antisemitic propaganda show.