Protests On Dresden Bombing Anniversary

[Purveyor]

DRESDEN, Germany — Thousands of far-right supporters and counter-demonstrators are expected to converge on Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the deadly Allied bombing at the end of World War II.

Police expect several thousand neo-Nazis from Germany and elsewhere at a march Saturday.

A heavy police presence is being put in place to keep them apart from counter-protesters and prevent possible violence by leftists. Mayor Helma Orosz is backing a protest against far-right attempts to exploit the city's painful past.

Raids by British and U.S. bombers on Feb. 13-14, 1945, set off firestorms and destroyed the centuries-old city center.

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[Codeine]

1. Awwwww, diddums.

Poor widdle Nazis.

[Vautrin]

2. One of the great unprosecuted war crimes

Poor widdle Nazis? What is your problem? I don't know what the position of the rightists is or what the
position of the leftist counter-demonstrators is, but if your use of 'poor widdle nazis' is an endorsement of the war crime perpetrated by the allies in the deliberate mass bombing of civilians, I pity your ignorance.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Anyone who has ever read accounts of the Dresden "firestorm"

or has watched a video of it cannot help but be physically shaken by the horror of it.

[Purveyor]

4. Indeed! eom

[JVS]

5. I'd love to organize a pro-Dresden-bombing group and get all in their faces about it!