It is anticipated that today similar hundreds and thousands of counter-demonstrators will be present in the streets of Friedberg and at the train station to meet the NPD demonstrators.
Netz.Gegen.Nazis.de is a very active network of German citizens and foreigners who work together to keep fascists out of the hands of internet and internet chat rooms nationwide. There website provides links for many other groups and encourages participants of all ages to do something to stop the rising harmful influences of Nazi and fascist ideology on web in Germany.
Internet portals have been the main means of quietly contacting and recruiting German youth in the last years just as Anti-Nazi groups organize and use the web to spread more factual information about the fascist groups intentions.
The ability of anti-fascist groups to gather quickly at the scenes of marches, such as that of the NPD this weekend in Friedberg, comes through a combination of internet and cell phone technologies, such as Twitter.
Besides Netz.Gegen.Nazis.de, which means Network Against Nazis in Germany,
http://www.netz-gegen-nazis.de/
there are many other cooperating web organizations, the Federal Center for Political Education,
http://www.bpb.de/themen/R2IRZM,0,Rechtsextremismus.html,
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