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The NYT is starting a new podcast 'Day X' about Neonazis in the German security forces:


Don't know how good it is, obviously, because all they've published by now is the trailer, but thought it might be of interest.
 
The NYT is starting a new podcast 'Day X' about Neonazis in the German security forces:


Don't know how good it is, obviously, because all they've published by now is the trailer, but thought it might be of interest.
Cheers for sharing
 
If anyone fancies listening to a long podcast about this stuff:

This week on the show, we share an interview with Sonja, an antifascist activist and researcher based in the state of Hessen, Germany, and involved in the network known as NSU-Watch. For the hour, we talk about the case of the National Socialist Underground terror group which killed 9 immigrants of Turkish, Greek and Kurdish immigrants between 2000 and 2006 and were only discovered in 2011. Sonja tells about organizing with those who lost their loved ones in the attacks, the uncovering of government knowledge of the networks that produced the NSU and the milieu and international nazi scene it arose from, autonomous antifascist research.

We then speak about the ongoing case of Franco Albrecht, the former German military officer who is presumed to have been planning a false flag attack to draw ire to immigrant communities in Germany, as well as the network of military and police involved in the coordinated “Day X” plot to overthrow the German state. In some ways this interview was meant as a corrective to the New York Times podcast entitled Day X, one which de-centers state agency, opacity and collusion in the plot.

Many thanks to the comrade at Anarchistisches Radio Berlin for support in researching this interview!

You can find more about NSU-Watch’s work at NSU-Watch.info/en/ or follow them on Twitter (@NSUWatch) and Instagram (@NSUWatch). More links in our show notes

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No transcript yet but there should be one up at some point for people who prefer to read.
 
If anyone fancies listening to a long podcast about this stuff:


No transcript yet but there should be one up at some point for people who prefer to read.
For anyone interested, this post from 2015 looks at state involvement in the NSU milieu, and bleed-over internationally:

 
German police raid neo-Nazi cells across country
Wed 6 Apr 2022
German authorities have swooped on alleged neo-Nazi militant cells and arrested four suspects as the country pursues a forceful crackdown on far-right extremists.

In what Der Spiegel magazine called “the biggest blow against the militant neo-Nazi scene in the recent past”, the federal prosecutor’s office said more than 1,000 officers had raided the homes of 50 suspects in 11 states.

“The four men arrested are accused of membership of a rightwing extremist criminal organisation,” it said in a statement, adding that some had also received other charges, including grievous bodily harm.

Spiegel reported that one of the suspects was a non-commissioned officer in the German armed forces.
 
Historical but worth a read, quite long.


Sasaferrato they wanted to poison you!

In 1979, three neo-Nazis were arrested for planning an assault on a West German communist group’s offices. One of the men had stolen a large quantity of sodium cyanide. He had planned to poison the guards at Berlin’s Spandau Prison and free its only prisoner, the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess.
 
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Historical but worth a read, quite long.


Sasaferrato they wanted to poison you!

In 1979, three neo-Nazis were arrested for planning an assault on a West German communist group’s offices. One of the men had stolen a large quantity of sodium cyanide. He had planned to poison the guards at Berlin’s Spandau Prison and free its only prisoner, the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess.
The bastards! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::D
 
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Bundeswehr officer Franco A was convicted last month for his Day X shenanigans:


Depaywalled:

"Franco A.’s lawyers, who had entered a plea of not guilty on terrorism charges, accused the court of being “a woke tribunal" "
:facepalm::snarl:🖕
 
"Franco A.’s lawyers, who had entered a plea of not guilty on terrorism charges, accused the court of being “a woke tribunal" "
:facepalm::snarl:🖕
His excuse for the gun that was uncovered at the airport which led to the investigation into him was that he 'found it in a hedge' after a boozy night :rolleyes:
As for the gun found in the airport toilet, he explains that he had gone to an officers' ball organised by the Austrian ministry of defence but went drinking with a friend and found the Nazi-era Browning Model 17 gun in a bush and put it in his coat.

As he later prepared to board a flight he said he panicked and hid it in the toilet before going back weeks later to hand it to police.
 
The NYT is starting a new podcast 'Day X' about Neonazis in the German security forces:


Don't know how good it is, obviously, because all they've published by now is the trailer, but thought it might be of interest.
Finally listened to this, definitely a decent summation of both Franco Albrecht/Tag X/Hannibal, and NSU and its ecosystem, with a strong focus on corrupt interrelationships between the far right and those in the armed forces, intelligence agencies and police units.
 
Connected:


...“But with this group investigators are taking their threats seriously particularly after they were found to have been in possession of heavy weapons and were trying to get hold of explosive material,” he said...
...One of the first aims of the group – which investigators say had close links to the far-right Reichsbürger scene as well as the anti-vaccine and coronavirus denier movements – was to kidnap Germany’s health minister, Karl Lauterbach, and if necessary to kill his bodyguards in the process. They also planned to cause a series of nationwide energy blackouts by attacking power stations...
 
Several people just got prison sentences for antifascist activity in Germany:
 
Been a few days of people kicking off in Germany, particularly in Leipzig, over the sentencing:
 
Several people just got prison sentences for antifascist activity in Germany:
DW reporter clearly has their tongue firmly positioned in their cheek:

...the only known surviving NSU member, Beate Zschäpe...
 
Yeah, bit of a bonkers comparison:
At least five more members of the anti-neo-Nazi network, including Lina E’s partner, are believed to be at large and continuing to operate underground, with a report by Germany’s criminal police office attesting the group displayed levels of professionalism last seen in the days of the Red Army Faction.

Colloquially known as the Baader-Meinhof group, the Red Army Faction, was a militant leftwing urban guerrilla network that carried out explosives attacks and assassinations in western Germany from 1970 to the early 90s.
As for this bit:
In at least one case the victim’s ideological affiliation seemed to have been less clear. Masked attackers beat up a 31-year-old in Leipzig’s Connewitz district in January 2019 because he wore a black hat by Greifvogel, a German clothing brand popular in rightwing extremist circles. In court, the man described the hat as a gift from a friend and insisted that he had long ago turned his back on a neo-Nazi scene he had belonged to as a teenager.
Just had a quick look at Greifvogel stuff and they seem to have a lot of things with slogans like "IRON WILL TO POWER", "STRENGTH AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD", "FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL - DEFEND EUROPA", "DEATHSQUAD" and so on, so it's not exactly like just starting on a random bloke in a Fred Perry top or something:
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So if this guy's story is true, and he is someone who used to be a neo-nazi but is now entirely apolitical, he might find he gets less grief(vogel) if he leaves his "IRON WILL TO POWER DEFEND EUROPA DEATHSQUAD" hat at home in future. Reminds me of that poor innocent bloke with a house full of C18 stuff who had to defend himself from an attack by Owen Jones.
 
Yeah, bit of a bonkers comparison:

As for this bit:

Just had a quick look at Greifvogel stuff and they seem to have a lot of things with slogans like "IRON WILL TO POWER", "STRENGTH AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD", "FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL - DEFEND EUROPA", "DEATHSQUAD" and so on, so it's not exactly like just starting on a random bloke in a Fred Perry top or something:
So if this guy's story is true, and he is someone who used to be a neo-nazi but is now entirely apolitical, he might find he gets less grief(vogel) if he leaves his "IRON WILL TO POWER DEFEND EUROPA DEATHSQUAD" hat at home in future. Reminds me of that poor innocent bloke with a house full of C18 stuff who had to defend himself from an attack by Owen Jones.


I've seen the 'they mistakingly attacked an innocent man' in a few anti-fascist cases which doesn't sit down too easily with the parallel claim that they choose targets like a terrorist group.
 
I've seen the 'they mistakingly attacked an innocent man' in a few anti-fascist cases which doesn't sit down too easily with the parallel claim that they choose targets like a terrorist group.
Yeah, I suppose it's one of those things that you can't easily correct as well, if the prosecution are claiming the defendants randomly attacked someone the defence can't really go "excuse me, I think you will find my clients actually engaged in a conspiracy to carry out a premeditated attack".
 
Yeah, I suppose it's one of those things that you can't easily correct as well, if the prosecution are claiming the defendants randomly attacked someone the defence can't really go "excuse me, I think you will find my clients actually engaged in a conspiracy to carry out a premeditated attack".
I wonder what the trade off was for the informer who gave evidence for the prosecution?
 
New podcast interview with a German antifascist:

Not listened to it all the way through, so I dunno if the interviewee gets eaten off a lioness and/or boar at the end. Also, christ, I had already heard the story about the BfV agent who was present at the scene of one of the NSU murders but just somehow completely failed to notice anything, but still shocking to be reminded of it.
 
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