:00:03. > :00:13.right under the nose of security. This contains some of strong
:00:13. > :00:18.
: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
:04:34. > :04:36.
: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
:07:49. > :07:51.
: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