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Ten years of NSU: how far right-wing extremist is Germany?
Beate Zschäpe was the only survivor to stand trial because of the NSU’s actions
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Attacks on synagogues, right-wing chat groups in the police – only isolated cases, as it is called in politics? How deep are the authorities actually permeated by right-wing extremists? How great is the danger of right-wing terror ten years after the NSU was exposed?
The right-wing extremist terrorist organization NSU was exposed ten years ago. It included Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe, who between 2000 and 2007 murdered ten people, attempted 43 murders, carried out three bomb attacks and 15 robberies. That they remained undetected for so long can only be explained by the absurd or deliberate failure of the police and the interior ministry; it raised questions about how much state organs are involved in right-wing extremist structures. And how much Germany has radicalized. Ten years later there is another man on trial who signs his threatening letters with NSU 2.0. So how great is the danger from the far right? And how far has she come in the middle of our society?
Right-wing extremism researcher Prof. Dr. Matthias Quent says: “The picture: Right-wing extremists, they are somehow the bald skinheads with combat boots from the East – that is a completely outdated picture. We are dealing with a social phenomenon that can be found everywhere.” And that makes it all the more dangerous. Last but not least, the AfD, which has now made it into all German parliaments, is contributing: “It works [der AfD] about the normalization of right-wing extremism. The aim is to ensure that there is no longer any outrage about völkisch theses or racist statements, but that this is perceived as part of the normal spectrum of opinion. “
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