77th Anniversary of Dresden Firebombing in WW2-Germany
Neo-Nazis march in Dresden on the 13th, February 2022 on the 77th Anniversary of the Allied Firebombing of the city. The annual memorial has gradually become of national importance for the far-right scene. Aiding in their message of a revisionist history as: 'we were victims too'.
NPD and their youth organisation the young nationalists were in attendance ,The Rights, The Third Path, New Strength Party (NSP) and other splinter right wing formations. The commemoration of the events of 1945 in Dresden-Saxony's state capital-continues to serve as a "remembrance site" for the extreme right. Using the occasion to consolidate a "sacrifice identity". Needless to say the traditional commemoration-also shown in this set- later in the day at the Altmarkt rotates around a different message of the formation of a human chain in peace and reconciliation.
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: Dresden Memorial March by the Far-Right under the title of 'Action Alliance against Forgetting' in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: Dresden Memorial March held by the Far-Right under the title of 'Action Alliance against Forgetting' in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: People gathered to make the human chain of rememberance outside the Frauenkirche in the Altmarkt in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War and 3000 people gathered to make a spacially distanced Corona safe act of rememberance by forming a human chain from Dresden Altmarkt via Wilsdruffer Strasse to the Neumarkt.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: People gathered to make the human chain of rememberance outside the Frauenkirche in the Altmarkt in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War and 3000 people gathered to make a spacially distanced Corona safe act of rememberance by forming a human chain from Dresden Altmarkt via Wilsdruffer Strasse to the Neumarkt.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: People gathered to make the human chain of rememberance outside the Frauenkirche in the Altmarkt in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War and 3000 people gathered to make a spacially distanced Corona safe act of rememberance by forming a human chain from Dresden Altmarkt via Wilsdruffer Strasse to the Neumarkt.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: People gathered to make the human chain of rememberance outside the Frauenkirche in the Altmarkt in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War and 3000 people gathered to make a spacially distanced Corona safe act of rememberance by forming a human chain from Dresden Altmarkt via Wilsdruffer Strasse to the Neumarkt.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: A lone protester sits down in the road and tries to block the Dresden Memorial March held by the Far-Right under the title of 'Action Alliance against Forgetting' in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: Dresden Memorial March held by the Far-Right under the title of 'Action Alliance against Forgetting' in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War. (Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY-FEBRUARY 13: People gathered to make the human chain of rememberance outside the Frauenkirche in the Altmarkt in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on the 13th of February 2022. Today is the 77th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city during the Second World War and 3000 people gathered to make a spacially distanced Corona safe act of rememberance by forming a human chain from Dresden Altmarkt via Wilsdruffer Strasse to the Neumarkt.(Photo by Craig Stennett/Getty Images)
Craig Stennett Photojournalist
Craig Stennett is a photojournalist based in Eastern Germany with a particular interest in the Middle East.