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		</div><p>Around 500 far-right extremists have marched in Berlin in honour of the 30th anniversary of the death of Nazi Rudolf Hess.<br />
Marchers were met with counter-demonstrators in similar numbers, who gathered near the parade in the Spandau district with both groups separated by hundreds of heavily armoured police.</p>
<p>Berlin police spokesman Carsten Mueller said authorities have imposed a number of restrictions on Saturday&#8217;s march to ensure it passes peacefully. Police have told organisers they can march but are not allowed to glorify Hess, who died at Spandau prison.</p>
<p>The neo-Nazis were also allowed to bring banners, but only one for every 50 participants. Such restrictions are common in Germany and rooted in the experience of the pre-war Weimar Republic, when opposing political groups would try to forcibly interrupt their rivals&#8217; rallies, resulting in frequent violence.</p>
<p>The exact rules differ according to the circumstances, but police in Germany say they generally try to balance protesters&#8217; rights to free speech and free assembly against the rights of counter-demonstrators and residents. The rules mean that shields, helmets and batons carried by far-right and Neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville in the US last weekend would not be allowed in Germany.</p>
<p>Openly anti-Semitic chants would prompt German police to intervene, although efforts would be made to detain specific individuals rather than to stop an entire rally, police say. Left-wing groups expect about 1,000 people to attend the counter-protests.</p>
<p>Hess, who received a life sentence at the Nuremberg trials for his role in planning the Second World War, died on August 17 1987. Allied authorities ruled his death a suicide but Nazi sympathisers have long claimed he was killed and organise annual marches in his honour.</p>
<p>The marches used to take place in the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel, where Hess was buried, until authorities removed his remains.</p>
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