Previously, the Dresden war memorial day had again been overshadowed by a neo-Nazi march this year. Several hundred people from the right-wing extremist scene gathered at the Mitte station and marched through the city. The figures vary between 700 and 1,000 participants. Among them were members of the right-wing extremist “Third Way” and the “New Strength”.
When asked by MDR SACHSEN, a police spokesman said that a public prosecutor had checked the banner for criminal relevance in order to possibly confiscate it. That is not the case, since the term “bomb holocaust” is not criminally prosecutable. Last year it was assessed differently. At the time, the police said: “People who wanted to go to the meeting of the right-wing spectrum were carrying a poster that, for reasons of averting danger, may not be shown at the meeting. We have instructed the people concerned to roll up the poster.”
Today’s decision not to retract the banner has been sharply criticized on social networks. Right-wing extremists use terms such as “bomb holocaust” to relativize or even question Germany’s guilt in World War II.