Pre-Valentines day

From today 67 years ago Dresden was bombed by British and American bombers. Every year  anti-Semitic groups try to use this day for their propaganda and citizen of Dresden and elsewhere from Germany try to stop them, try to contemplate about the victims of the bombing in Dresden, Germany, and all over the world with the hope that this globe will become peaceful one day.

Also today the citizen came together and formed a human chain around the inner city of Dresden to signal that neo-Nazis are not welcome in this city. I realised today that I haven't seen neo-Nazis demonstrating within the inner city for at least three years and today they were again forced to march around the city centre. When I took the tram number 1 from Dobritz I was astonished by the sheer number of people in the tram. I was even more astonished when I realised that they were actually Nazis from West Germany who came by Bus to Dresden. Last year some of them couldn't demonstrate because people from all over Germany blocked their way from the train stations. This was subject to some discussion prior to the event today, whether civil disobedience against Nazis is "good" or "bad". However, even though there was a lot of police in the city today, with tear gas and horses did no huge riots occur. It was quite, and the Nazis who were allowed to demonstrate until 11 p.m. went home at 8 p.m. and the counter protesters looked satisfied for this year. Hopefully, the city council will ban the Nazi demonstrations in Dresden in the next year!  

Students protest against Nazis in Dresden/Altmarkt.

On the way to Budapester Str., to block the coming Nazis.

Blockage close to the Budapest Str. in Dresden.