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02/15/2009: "6,000 march in Dresden"

German anti-immigrant, skinhead and neo-Nazi groups in the eastern city of Dresden staged one of their biggest demonstrations since German reunification in 1990 today, as 6,000 extremists marched through the streets, police said.

Groups tied to the National Democratic Party used the 64th anniversary of the 1945 firebombing of Dresden to hold a "mourning march" through the capital of the state of Saxony. Two counter-demonstrations, led by unions and political activists, drew almost 10,000, police spokesman Marko Laske said.

"There's nothing in Germany that could compare to the scale of this Nazi march," said Robert Kusche, an activist with Kulturbuero Sachsen, which organized one of the counter-demonstrations.

[ Fantastic! ]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aGstsMp983DI&refer=germany