The Nazis Defeated in Berlin

To believe the boulevard rags, it would be a day of revolutionary riot, bloody battles with the police, and violent standoffs between extremists of the left and right.

Of course, being May Day, there were the usual union rallies in most major cities, including Berlin, where union leaders spoke rather more militantly than on the other 364 days of the year.  Pressures from the membership were building up; there was a dip in unemployment figures, but the numbers of those with temp jobs, short-term jobs, and hunger wage jobs, which improved the statistics, only increased poverty and uncertainty.  Many feared what the right-wing government of Angela Merkel was preparing for the months after the key May 9th elections in the big state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

But a basic question for many Berliners was: will the Nazis march in force through a key district of eastern Berlin?  They had been roundly defeated in Dresden in February, when human blockades prevented them from leaving the train station.  Their Internet sites seethed with anger and hatred and now they boasted that 10,000 would achieve revenge in Berlin and elsewhere.

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