Awwal 10, 1432 H/Feb 13, 2011, SPA -- Thousands 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 World War II, AP reported. City authorities said that 17,000 people formed the chain Sunday. News agency DAPD reported that they included Germany's interior minister and Saxony's state governor. Three waves of British and U.S. bombers on Feb. 13-14, 1945, set off firestorms and destroyed Dresden's centuries-old baroque city center. Up to 25,000 people were killed. Deputy mayor Detlef Sittel said that Dresden is remembering the victims while recalling «nights and days in which Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry were earlier reduced to rubble by German bombers.» Far-right groups have long sought to exploit the bombing.
