Several thousand people took to the streets of Dresden on Sunday for counter-protests as far-right marches nearby commemorated those killed in the destruction of the city by Allied forces at the end of World War II. Historians say some 25,000 people were killed by US and British aerial bombardment of Dresden in February 1945, the moral justification of which was later fiercely debated among historians, as well as right and left-wing political groups in Germany. Police said almost 5,000 people turned out in pouring rain for counter-protests, while almost 1,000 people joined a so-called “funeral…