Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland (Young Homeland Association of East Germany – JLO) is a German youth organization, that the

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has categorized as “

right-wing extremist Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of bein ...

”. Most of its activities take place in the eastern parts of

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. Its regional branch in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...

organized the annual marches to commemorate the

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until 2012. A Bloomberg report claims it has ties to the

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. In February 2009, the National Democratic Party and the JLO organized a demonstration on the anniversary of the

bombing of Dresden in World War II The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Roya ...

. Approximately 6,000 people took part in the event. 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. In February 2012, with regard to the widespread resistance from other groups to the JLO organized marches in previous years the JLO announced that all marches for that year were cancelled. In January 2011, the JLO "Saxony-Silesia" regional branch nominated

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for the

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for services rendered to the German expellées.

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Official website of the Junge Landsmannschaft OstdeutschlandJLO Sachsen websiteNetz gegen Nazis on JLODer Rechte Rand on JLO
Youth organisations based in Germany Political organisations based in Germany Neo-Nazism in Germany German nationalist political parties {{Germany-org-stub