Around 300, Aug. 2 -- HAMBURG - A truck draped in black cloth rolled through Hamburg's streets on Saturday, its passengers in dark clothing and silence, representing the city that could not send its own parade. Berlin's Christopher Street Day sent that tribute north a week after a 21-year-old drove a van into the crowd at its closing celebration, killing one woman and wounding 29 others. It refused to be the final word.

"Queer in solidarity. Take a stand - for a future without fear." The words carried a different weight by Saturday. According to CBS News, Hamburg's police deployed roughly double the officers from the previous year, with checkpoints along foot routes and barriers lining the parade corridor.

The attack a week earlier happ...