From series: About Neo-festival: Hallelujah, Ostritz! 1,000 neo-Nazis, police and against demonstrators. The small town has never experienced such a weekend. But it is worth it: in Ostritz Saxon decency shows itself. By Doreen Reinhard, Ostritz 21. April 2018, 15:48 Uhr391 comments The 78-year-old Reinhard Wagner came from a neighbouring village to demonstrate against neo-Nazis. © Doreen Reinhard Content
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Ostritz lies in rear of Saxony, in dead zone. Sometimes network switches from Polish neighbouring village. For this market place and church are very pretty, front gardens tended, streets empty and quiet. Once a year, Easter riders gallop through small town, which is highlight of year in Catholic region. If anything, Ostritz has only popped up in local news because of Easter riders.
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Many of 2,400 inhabitants like this very manageable seclusion. Now, however, place has been providing news in large German media for days. There is talk of state of emergency and siege. From right-wing extremists who meet at hotel Neisse view on outskirts. On 20th of April, birthday of Adolf Hitler, y open three-day festival sign and sword, scene in internal abbreviated SS. For months, everything revolves around Ostritz just this weekend. Some are afraid of it, ors do not want to make this visitation just like that. And in between in Ostritz all kinds of undecided.
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Just like family Schmidt, who looks nervously over her garden fence and likes to shoot clock. Best on Sunday night when everything will be over again. The hustle and bustle and many strangers in place are not you, so you prefer to keep your real names for yourself. The mor is an old nurse and just comes from work. “In home old people were very excited and asked again and again wher streets were still free.”
The figures of weekend also tell Schmidts again and again, as if y still cannot believe what is happening at ir doorstep. 1,000 right-wing extremists are expected. Protesters from left-wing parties. Also several hundred visitors at Ostritzer Peace Festival in Market Square. Finally, 1,000 police officers who are supposed to ensure this situation. It has been largest deployment in region for ten years.
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“So a policeman comes to two inhabitants,” Ms. Schmidt reckons. “Man, such a care key we should have in our home.” Her husband thinks back and forth: “Is it all quiet? Oh, it’ll be all quiet. ” And son, who works at baker’s place, scolds a bit about circumstances. He has to go to shift, his workplace is in restricted area. The colleagues and he have previously handed out lists of names to police and now have to prove mselves every time y want to go to bakery. “All se preparations, that’s madness! At same time, we cannot do anything to ensure that rights come to us. “
For months, all scenarios have been played by residents, police and journalists. In worst, Ostritz to violence summit between left and right and became a second topic. In Thuringian village 6,000 neo-Nazis had celebrated last year, pictures went through whole country. Previously, subject was hardly known to anyone, since n one thinks of Nazi hordes when name falls. Will it happen in Ostritz too?
