Germany’s iconic city on a Elbe played horde to this year’s inhabitant jubilee imprinting 26 years given East and West Germany reunited during a finish of a Cold War.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck assimilated a some 450,000 people who collected in a Saxon collateral for music, fireworks and a light show.
While a sign of this year’s fest emphasized bringing people together – Brücken bauen, or building bridges – a three-day weekend was also noted by protesters from a left and right hostile one another.
Chancellor Merkel became a aim of a proof by a anti-immigrant Pegida transformation with protesters booing her as she arrived.
See for yourself what happened on German Unity Day this year.
“National Socialism is No Alternative” protestors face military in Dresden. Photo: DPA
Article source: https://www.thelocal.de/20161004/dresdens-german-unity-day-celebrations-dampened-by-weather-and-protests-2016-merkel-pegida