German police arrested 74 neo-Nazis today at a march marking the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess.
Police said the right-wing extremists were held for carrying banned Nazi symbols or weapons ahead of the gathering in the southern town of Wunsiedel, where Hess is buried.
A further 31 people, including four left-wing demonstrators, were also held.
Around 3,000 neo-Nazis from Germany and abroad took part in the march, which has become an annual ritual and which the council in the north Bavarian town once again tried to ban.
Organisers won a court appeal, but the town's mayor and other locals managed to hold up the procession for some time with a sitdown protest on the street.
Anti-Nazi groups held counter-demonstrations, some holding banners proclaiming "Neo-Nazis are a joke".
Hess was found hanged in his prison cell in the Spandau district of Berlin in 1987. Many of Germany's small band of neo-Nazis believe he was murdered by his British military captors rather than committing suicide as is generally believed.
Hess was captured in 1941 after parachuting into Scotland in an apparent personal bid to broker peace with Britain.