Germany's Far Right

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:00:03. > :00:13.right under the nose of security. This contains some of strong

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:00:18. > :00:24.language which some viewers may The number of armed and violent

:00:24. > :00:28.neo-Nazis is on the rise. The far- right movement is diversifying,

:00:28. > :00:34.attracting growing numbers of students and middle class

:00:34. > :00:41.professionals. Revelations of mass murder and hate crimes forced the

:00:41. > :00:45.German authorities to admit they have done too little for too long.

:00:45. > :00:55.East Germany's Nazi past preventing it from fighting right-wing

:00:55. > :01:14.

:01:14. > :01:17.Last November are amongst the wreckage of his burned-out flat,

:01:17. > :01:26.police unpacked one of the biggest scandals of Germany's post war

:01:26. > :01:30.history. The flat had been home to Beate Zschaepe, Uwe Boehnhardt, and

:01:30. > :01:35.Uwe Mundlos, known neo-Nazi activists who had been on the run

:01:35. > :01:40.for years after police linked them to a garage full of a bomb making

:01:41. > :01:47.equipment back in 1988. But as the German public was about to discover,

:01:47. > :01:50.they did not exactly keep a low profile. To earn extra cash, Beate

:01:50. > :01:55.Zschaepe designed and sold a version of Monopoly. The

:01:55. > :02:02.intelligence service showed us the game. Concentration camps are the

:02:02. > :02:05.most desirable properties on the board. The trio is also believed to

:02:05. > :02:09.have made this DVD, rather bizarrely using the Pink Panther

:02:09. > :02:13.cartoon character to boast that they went on a ten-year killing

:02:13. > :02:21.spree, carrying out at least nine a racially motivated murders

:02:21. > :02:29.nationwide. As evidence, they used photos police say they talk of

:02:29. > :02:34.their victims, shot in the head in broad daylight. Here, in a mocking

:02:34. > :02:39.tone, the trio trumpets their authorship of this devastating

:02:39. > :02:44.nail-bomb attack in a Turkish neighbourhood in 2004. 22 people

:02:44. > :02:48.were injured, many of them seriously. The trio's says their

:02:48. > :02:52.action answers the German nationalist's call to serve their

:02:52. > :02:58.people and their country. They signed off as the National

:02:58. > :03:02.Socialist Underground, echoing the National socialism of his club's

:03:02. > :03:08.Germany. Police now believe Beate Zschaepe set fire to their flat and

:03:08. > :03:11.then turned herself in but is reportedly refusing to talk. Her

:03:11. > :03:17.accomplices were found dead elsewhere in an apparent murder

:03:17. > :03:22.suicide. Had that not been the case, their work may have never come to

:03:22. > :03:26.light. These revelations sent shockwaves across Germany. All the

:03:27. > :03:30.more when it became apparent the trio's allegiance to the far right

:03:30. > :03:39.and their violent tendencies were flagged up to the authorities even

:03:39. > :03:42.up in the small East German town. TRANSLATION: All too often they put

:03:42. > :03:49.one of us in hospital, or there would be a broken arm, nose, an

:03:49. > :03:54.injury that needed new stitches. It was amongst the neo-Nazis at one

:03:54. > :03:58.stage to stamp out burning cigarettes in their chests of 14-

:03:58. > :04:02.year-old girls. Series intimidation. They were among the frontline of

:04:02. > :04:08.neo-Nazis. We all knew them. We knew them because we were scared of

:04:08. > :04:12.them on the streets at night. Their faces were seed into our memories.

:04:12. > :04:17.Katharina Koenig says although she and her left-wing friends were

:04:17. > :04:24.often attacked by the local neo- Nazis, the police did nothing.

:04:24. > :04:34.TRANSLATION: It SES they didn't -- it is as if they did not care. They

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:04:36. > :04:39.acted with ignorance. The political background was completely ignored.

:04:39. > :04:43.Later, when the neo-Nazi group began to murdered Turkish

:04:43. > :04:52.businessmen, police again ignored the possibility of a right-wing

:04:52. > :04:57.hate crime. They blamed the killings on the Turkish mafia. We

:04:57. > :05:00.have seen a secret internal report revealing serious blunders by law

:05:00. > :05:05.enforcement agencies. They had the group under close surveillance for

:05:05. > :05:10.several years, but never took decisive action. Why weren't they

:05:11. > :05:19.stopped before they began to kill? Helmut rover was the local

:05:19. > :05:29.intelligence chief at the time. -- Helmut Roewer. It was necessary to

:05:29. > :05:36.arrest those people at once. Police did not. Why? I cannot explain it.

:05:36. > :05:44.I cannot explain it. We thought that we had them two or three times.

:05:44. > :05:50.And it was not possible to arrest them. I cannot explain it. Don't

:05:50. > :05:57.ask me. Don't ask me. We kept asking him, but he had no answers

:05:57. > :06:01.for us. Allegations had been made in Germany not just of incompetence,

:06:01. > :06:06.but of right-wing sympathies inside the country's secret services and

:06:06. > :06:10.police force, something the institutions vehemently deny. Here

:06:10. > :06:15.in Germany, it is impossible to discuss far-right or even

:06:15. > :06:20.nationalist activity in isolation outside the context of this

:06:20. > :06:24.country's Nazi past. Gemmy's post- war constitution was very much

:06:24. > :06:28.written in the vein of never again. So the story of the nationalist

:06:28. > :06:33.socialist underground throws up disturbing questions. Just how is

:06:33. > :06:38.it that a group of militant neo- Nazis was allowed to flourish, and

:06:38. > :06:43.just how popular and how powerful are the far right, and nationalist

:06:43. > :06:46.extremists, in Germany today? Human rights groups say more than 180

:06:46. > :06:51.people have been killed in right- wing attacks in Germany over the

:06:51. > :06:56.last 20 years. Neo-Nazis have nerdy more people in post-war Germany

:06:56. > :07:02.than any other single group including the slimness and the far

:07:02. > :07:07.left. -- have murdered. But it is not reflected in official data. The

:07:07. > :07:11.German government admits mistakes were made. Apparently there have

:07:11. > :07:21.been hints and indications of right-wing extremism, but it was

:07:21. > :07:23.

:07:23. > :07:32.not taken seriously enough. We have put this home the political agenda.

:07:32. > :07:39.-- higher on. We urge the police and security institutions to do

:07:39. > :07:49.their utmost in clarifying the reasons of failure. Nobody in

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:07:51. > :08:00.Germany expected to see such a well working at Network of right-wing

:08:00. > :08:04.terrorism. But why is that? Martin is a former neo-Nazi leader. He has

:08:04. > :08:13.left the movement and asked us to hide his identity. He says the neo-

:08:13. > :08:17.Nazi trio's murderous exploits should have come as no surprise.

:08:17. > :08:22.The militants said we need people who are willing and trained in case

:08:22. > :08:27.it comes to civil war. It is armed and military. It leads to people

:08:27. > :08:32.being killed. Weapons training is carried out in secret. In the Arab

:08:32. > :08:37.world, for instance, with freedom movement there, the right wing

:08:37. > :08:41.scene sees itself as a freedom of movement. And Martin was part of a

:08:41. > :08:45.growing movement of secretive far right groups in Germany called the

:08:45. > :08:51.Free forces. No longer only rooted in the past, these groups tend not

:08:51. > :08:54.to call themselves Nazi or neo-Nazi, but rather, the Free forces. They

:08:54. > :08:58.are attracting a new crowd, including the middle classes,

:08:58. > :09:02.students and intellectuals. They are harnessing social media and

:09:02. > :09:07.using new modern forms and means and reasons for protest. When it

:09:07. > :09:16.comes to them one intelligent agent said the security services in

:09:16. > :09:26.Germany are really out of their debt.

:09:26. > :09:30.

:09:30. > :09:33.This group, the immortals, is part of the new crowd. Anti-

:09:33. > :09:43.globalisation, anti-capitalists, and anti-democratic, they warn of

:09:43. > :09:43.

:09:43. > :09:47.the impending extinction of the German people. Hard for the

:09:47. > :09:52.authorities d'etat, they used text messaging to organise spontaneous

:09:52. > :09:57.demonstrations across the country, like this one, in their propaganda

:09:57. > :10:02.video. -- for the authorities to catch. After 15 minutes on the

:10:02. > :10:05.streets they are gone. leadership is always trying to

:10:05. > :10:09.attract members of the so-called upper-class as, students who one

:10:09. > :10:13.day can act as lawyers or doctors, really do something to help the

:10:13. > :10:17.movement. You would never imagine those sorts of people support for

:10:17. > :10:20.the far right. They might -- they might deny their affiliation in

:10:20. > :10:27.public but they are very much a part of the moment, more so now

:10:27. > :10:32.than ever before. -- the movement. Far-right activists are somewhat

:10:32. > :10:37.camera shy. But what exactly do they want? Based say they are

:10:37. > :10:42.hounded by police and hemmed in by post-war German laws. -- they said.

:10:42. > :10:46.We went to Berlin's best known neo- Nazi pub, the executioner, to see

:10:46. > :10:50.if we could tempt the punters to talk. They have never met a camera

:10:50. > :10:57.crew in here before, but after a couple of cocktails, the former

:10:57. > :11:02.head of a now banned neo-Nazi groups sat down with us.

:11:02. > :11:06.TRANSLATION: Who are we? We are nationalists. We care deeply about

:11:06. > :11:10.our Fatherland. We don't like the state that exists now in Germany.

:11:10. > :11:14.We want to be built -- rebuild the country for the citizens, the

:11:14. > :11:19.German people. We want to protect our culture, our country, our

:11:19. > :11:26.religion. In Britain, U2 are proud of your country. But I as a German

:11:26. > :11:31.art -- and a second class citizen. Others get preferential treatment.

:11:31. > :11:38.Those outside who say this pub is full of evil Nazis, how would they

:11:38. > :11:42.know? They are afraid to talk to us. They tried to ban us. The British

:11:43. > :11:46.owner of the pub asked us to hide his identity to protect his family.

:11:46. > :11:51.He was amongst many that night who complained to us about strict

:11:51. > :11:55.German laws they believe I used to persecute the far right. If the

:11:55. > :12:01.German government make laws that you can't express your freedom of

:12:01. > :12:07.speech, then there will be an uprising. It will happen. Just

:12:07. > :12:10.because it will be forbidden. It will happen. If they let these laws

:12:10. > :12:17.go then people will be a lot more free and say what they think. They

:12:17. > :12:25.will be more discussion. They won't have as many political problems.

:12:25. > :12:31.That is my feeling. But time does the pub owner. That's it. -- but I

:12:31. > :12:41.am just. I have a regular crowd who comes here. A drink and discuss.

:12:41. > :12:45.The police and state, they don't But many don't like the idea the

:12:45. > :12:51.far right rejects the German state. The nationalists want a new order

:12:51. > :12:55.in Germany, non-democratic and none multicultural. And in the meantime,

:12:55. > :12:59.some are establishing what they call national liberated zones

:12:59. > :13:04.dotted across the country. Political scientist Daniel took me

:13:04. > :13:13.to this sprawling estate just outside Berlin, it has been dubbed

:13:13. > :13:21.the capital's neo-Nazi stronghold. We are in a flat district built in

:13:21. > :13:26.the Cold War times. If you look around the streets, looking at the

:13:26. > :13:34.signs and the bus stops, you will find stickers, flyers, graffiti,

:13:34. > :13:39.from forces showing that this territory is aimed at the right-

:13:39. > :13:42.wing circles. You will find a broad spectrum. You will have the NDP

:13:42. > :13:48.active here, and the Free forces, the neo-Nazi groups, the more

:13:48. > :13:54.militant groups, and the youth organisations. You will find

:13:54. > :14:01.basically established political circles and other neo-Nazi groups.

:14:01. > :14:05.In this area of town years ago we had some clashes, some riots, even

:14:05. > :14:10.some beatings and killings of people. They forced out what they

:14:11. > :14:17.called the political enemy: Foreigners, left wingers, Democrats,

:14:17. > :14:24.whatever. They achieved this basically some years ago. Right now

:14:24. > :14:29.this area is more-or-less for them, free of political enemies.

:14:29. > :14:38.Basically you were just change your living space.

:14:38. > :14:43.We are now in the middle of the countryside. We're on our way to

:14:43. > :14:51.the only village that really has been completely taken over by neo-

:14:51. > :14:57.Nazis in Germany today. All of the houses but one are part of their

:14:58. > :15:02.organisations. In the middle of the village is this Nazi Germany style

:15:02. > :15:06.mural, proclaiming the area is free, social and national. The German

:15:06. > :15:11.authorities recently forced the villagers here to take down a

:15:11. > :15:16.signpost pointing towards Hitler's birthplace. People here weren't

:15:16. > :15:19.particularly pleased to see us, all keen to talk to us. Prior to coming

:15:19. > :15:27.here I had tried to organise an interview with the leading family

:15:27. > :15:32.of the village, but they weren't keen on our camera. It is all about

:15:32. > :15:40.ideology. This is the most dangerous threat. They want to

:15:40. > :15:44.change the society from within. Far-right groups also run summer

:15:44. > :15:48.camps, like this one in North Germany, filmed a few years ago.

:15:48. > :15:52.This youth organisation was later banned. The German Interior

:15:52. > :16:00.Ministry said it was indoctrinating children in Nazi ideology, as well

:16:00. > :16:04.as giving them military training. But the courtship of youngsters

:16:04. > :16:10.continues. The nationalists run youth clubs and sports clubs. They

:16:10. > :16:12.are playing the social card in the current economic crisis, offering

:16:13. > :16:18.welfare advice and family assistance, looking to attract new

:16:18. > :16:22.supporters. They can't win over all parts of German society with anti-

:16:22. > :16:28.Semitic and Nazi rhetoric. The welfare debate touches most people

:16:28. > :16:31.these days. But it is fake. One well-known neo-Nazi activist said,

:16:31. > :16:38."We will make sure to be where people are suffering most, where

:16:38. > :16:45.they are shouting for help. Eventually we will have them where

:16:45. > :16:49.we want them". The NDP is the legal political wing of the far right. It

:16:49. > :16:59.has elected representatives in two out of Germany's 16 state

:16:59. > :17:04.

:17:04. > :17:10.This man is the leader of one of those parliaments. TRANSLATION:

:17:10. > :17:15.German children need the land. We want to keep the German people a

:17:15. > :17:20.live with our own biological vitality so that tomorrow and the

:17:21. > :17:28.day after Germany still earns the name Germany, because imagine a

:17:28. > :17:37.country called Germany that is filled only with Africans, with us

:17:37. > :17:42.importing nice little sweet maker children. -- sweet little black

:17:42. > :17:45.children. TRANSLATION: We don't want Germany to be the paymasters

:17:45. > :17:49.of Greece and Ireland with all of their debts. We want out of the

:17:49. > :17:54.euro. We want a good social programme for German children so

:17:54. > :17:57.German families can have more children. We want security for

:17:57. > :18:04.children in their old age. When you know that you will understand why

:18:04. > :18:09.the established German authorities want to ban us.

:18:09. > :18:17.The German government says it is looking to than the NPD because of

:18:17. > :18:23.its association with extremists -- to ban.

:18:23. > :18:27.And also its alleged links to the neo-Nazi Chela trio, the national

:18:27. > :18:37.socialist underground. -- Chela trio.

:18:37. > :18:40.

:18:40. > :18:44.-- killer trio. We want them to behave in a constitutional way. But

:18:44. > :18:49.informally we have the impression that this is a party that is

:18:49. > :18:59.hostile to the basic values of our constitution, the protection of

:18:59. > :18:59.

:18:59. > :19:05.human dignity, equality of treatment, etc. The German

:19:05. > :19:12.constitution, given the terrific experience of the Third Reich,

:19:12. > :19:17.provides a possibility to ban political parties hostile to basic

:19:17. > :19:21.values of the constitution. But it has to be proven, it has to show

:19:21. > :19:27.evidence for this. The NPD is also criticised for its questioning of

:19:27. > :19:32.the Holocaust. I asked them what they thought of Hitler.

:19:32. > :19:37.TRANSLATION: Look here. If one speaks about a historical figure it

:19:37. > :19:41.is impossible to do so during a short interview. I could ask lots

:19:41. > :19:47.of people what they thought of Hitler, they would be able to

:19:47. > :19:52.answer me in very few words. those are emotions and not facts. I

:19:52. > :19:57.don't ask people in Dresden what they think of Bomber Harris.

:19:57. > :20:03.you're totally avoiding my question, what do you think of Hitler, and

:20:03. > :20:07.what of the six million Jews? me point out to you that in Germany

:20:07. > :20:11.you are punishable by law if you don't ac don't acs'

:20:11. > :20:16.version of what happened at Auschwitz birth canal. Every year

:20:16. > :20:20.in Germany about 1,500 people are taken to court and prosecuted, and

:20:20. > :20:25.sometimes thrown in jail because they raised doubts about specific

:20:25. > :20:30.historical issues. I ask for your understanding. I do not want to

:20:30. > :20:35.talk about these issues. I do not live in a free country. The Federal

:20:35. > :20:39.Republic of Germany is not a free country in regard to this topic.

:20:39. > :20:44.German nationalists say they represent the German people. Most

:20:44. > :20:49.Germans insist they certainly do not. The statistics indicate the

:20:49. > :20:53.euro crisis and wider economic woes mean increasing numbers are

:20:53. > :21:03.sympathetic to the anti- immigrant Germans first message espoused by

:21:03. > :21:08.the far right. This was the state memorial service

:21:08. > :21:15.for the victims of the neo-Nazi trio, the NFU, earlier this year.

:21:15. > :21:19.Just a few days before more than 2000 neo- Nazis marched in Preston.

:21:19. > :21:23.At the Memorial there was a profound sense of remorse with

:21:23. > :21:28.political promises to crack down on the far right. But as the story

:21:28. > :21:33.fades from the national headlines, human rights groups are concerned