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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/clashes-at-dresden-farright-rally.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Ultra right-wing demonstrators carry torches in Dresden last week. Police have clashed with demonstrators (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-clashes-at-dresden-farright-rally.jpg" alt="Ultra right-wing demonstrators carry torches in Dresden last week. Police have clashed with demonstrators (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>German police fired tear gas and water cannons to keep apart groups of far-right supporters and thousands of counter-demonstrators trying to hinder their rally in the eastern city of Dresden, police said.</p>
<p>Hundreds of left-wing protesters tried to break through police barriers, hurling rocks and fireworks at officers who responded with baton charges, tear gas and pepper spray.</p>
<p>About 1,000 far-right supporters were at three court-approved rallies or on their way there by early on Saturday afternoon, police said.</p>
<p>A far larger number of counter-demonstrators &#8211; supported by unions, democratic parties and civil society groups &#8211; were in the city trying to prevent the rallies from going ahead. Three protesters were arrested.</p>
<p>Dresden authorities said earlier this week it expects at least 3,000 far-right supporters from Germany and elsewhere and around 20,000 counter-demonstrators to gather.</p>
<p>The annual protest rally constitutes one of Europe&#8217;s biggest far-right gatherings, usually held earlier in February to commemorate the anniversary of a deadly Allied bombing at the end of the Second World War.</p>
<p>Raids by British and US bombers on February 13 and 14 1945 set off firestorms and destroyed the centuries-old city centre.</p>
<p>In 2008, a panel commissioned by German state officials found that the firebombing killed up to 25,000 people &#8211; lower than scholars&#8217; previous estimates.</p>
<p>City officials, state politicians, unions and civil society groups each year hold rallies &#8211; hugely outnumbering the far-right supporters &#8211; protesting against far-right attempts to exploit the city&#8217;s painful past.</p>
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