Charlotsville Incidents
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Left-wing groups and Berlin residents prevented more than 500 far-right extremists from marching Saturday to the place where high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess died 30 years ago.
Police in riot gear kept the neo-Nazis and an estimated 1,000 counter-protesters apart as the two sides staged competing rallies in the German capital’s western district of Spandau.
Far-right protesters had planned to march to the site of the former Spandau prison, where Hess hanged himself in 1987, but were forced to turn back after about a kilometer (0.6 miles) because of a blockade by counter-protesters.
After changing their route, the neo-Nazis, who had come from all over Germany and neighboring European countries, returned to Spandau’s main station for speeches amid jeers and chants of “Nazis go home!” and “You lost the war!” from counter-protesters.
Authorities had imposed restrictions on the march to ensure that it passed peacefully. Organizers were told they couldn’t glorify Hess or the Nazi regime, carry weapons, drums or torches, and could bring only one flag for every 25 participants.
- This seems far more sane and no one was hurt...why can't America handle things like this?yuekit
- because of a state sponsored public debate on the traumatising history of the nazis in Germany. Didn't bury the crimes, but talk, teach and debate about it.uan
- similar programs were also installed in South America to cure the hate in the population by the dictatorships.uan
- caused by the dictatorships*
...probably the best solution we have as societies.uan