![Right extremists attend a neo-Nazi rally on June 17, 2012 in Dresden, eastern Germany, where commemorations were held to remember the uprising from 1953 in the former east German Democratic Republic (GDR). Hundreds of policemen were deployed to keep apart leftist participants of a countermarch. 59 years ago, on June 17, 1953, a strike by East Berlin construction workers provoked a widespread uprising against the regime, which was violently suppressed. June 17 became national holiday in West Germany until the German reunification. AFP PHOTO / ROBERT MICHAEL / AFP PHOTO / ROBERT MICHAEL](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/42ZJKG5DYDAVIEL3E5SD4YWBYA.jpg?smart=true&auth=2e5af95479ab9047b6fea78e4ee9ba08da879fb32a2002be237ecf2f17f03c3b&width=400&height=225)
Right extremists attend a neo-Nazi rally in Dresden, eastern Germany. AFP PHOTO
Right extremists attend a neo-Nazi rally in Dresden, eastern Germany. AFP PHOTO
German police investigate far right race hate as up to 200 black crosses, bearing xenophobic slogans, appear
Germany's intelligence agency raises concerns over far right radicalism as it designates Identitarian Movement as an extreme right-wing group