Approximately 700 neo-Nazi supporters marched near Berlin to honor Germans killed during a 1945 assault on Berlin. Riot police separated 400 counter-demonstrators on Saturday from the marchers in the town of Halbe, where 22,000 soldiers and civilians killed by the Soviet army are buried.
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