Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland (Youth National Association of East Germany, "Youth Homeland Association of East Germany") is a nationalist and revanchist, German youth organization, that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has described as “partially far-right”.[1][2] Most of its activities take place in the eastern parts of Germany. It organized a march to commemorate the Bombing of Dresden in World War II in February 2009. A Bloomberg report claims it has ties to the National Democratic Party of Germany.[3]
In February 2009, the National Democratic Party and the Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland organized a demonstration on the anniversary of the bombing of Dresden in World War II. Approximately 6,000 people took part in the event.[4][5] On February 13, 2010, as both organizations attempted again to march through Dresden, more than 10.000 counter-demonstrators blocked the participants from marching through the city, and about 6.000 supporters held a rally in a space adjacent to the Dresden-Neustadt train station, surrounded by police blockades.
It was at one time headed by Bernhard Knapstein, who was in the Hofgeismar Circle,[6] which is an organization that opposes immigration and 'does not believe in a multicultural society'.[7]
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