Clashes have broken out in Dresden during angry protests marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied bombing of the German city.
As many as 5,000 policemen have been deployed in Dresden to prevent unrest after thousands of right-wing protesters poured into the streets in order to mark the anniversary of the so-called 'Bombing Holocaust' in which British and American bombers leveled Germany's Baroque capital in 1945.
Police clashed with both rightist protesters and their leftist rivals as both groups set fire to trash cans and blocked city traffic. A combined number of 15,000 protesters took part in the demonstrations.
The leftist demonstrators, however, tried to disrupt the far-right protesters as the sparring groups commemorated victims of the war.
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