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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/human-chain-protest-in-dresden.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="People stand along side each other to form a human chain commemorating the 66th anniversary of the allied bombing of Dresden (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-human-chain-protest-in-dresden.jpg" alt="People stand along side each other to form a human chain commemorating the 66th anniversary of the allied bombing of Dresden (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Thousands of people have formed a human chain in Dresden to protest against a far-right march on the 66th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the city in the Second World War.</p>
<p>Officials said 17,000 people formed the chain around the rebuilt city centre. It was reported that they included Germany&#8217;s interior minister and Saxony&#8217;s governor.</p>
<p>Three waves of British and US bombers on February 13-14, 1945, destroyed Dresden&#8217;s centuries-old baroque city centre.</p>
<p>The total number of people killed has long been uncertain. In 2008, a panel commissioned by Saxony officials found that the firebombing killed no more than 25,000 people &#8211; far fewer than scholars&#8217; previous estimates that ran as high as 135,000.</p>
<p>Dresden remembers the victims while also recalling &#8220;nights and days in which Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry were earlier reduced to rubble by German bombers&#8221;, said deputy mayor Detlef Sittel.</p>
<p>Far-right groups have long sought to exploit the bombing. A few thousand supporters marched today from the city&#8217;s main station, carrying torches and banners with slogans such as &#8220;the victims were our families&#8221;.</p>
<p>The far right is a marginal political force in Germany and has no seats in parliament. However, Saxony, where Dresden is located, is one of two states where the far-right National Democratic Party has seats in local government.</p>
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