Germany's Far Right Our World

right under the nose of security. This contains some of strong

language which some viewers may The number of armed and violent

neo-Nazis is on the rise. The far- right movement is diversifying,

attracting growing numbers of students and middle class

professionals. Revelations of mass murder and hate crimes forced the

German authorities to admit they have done too little for too long.

East Germany's Nazi past preventing it from fighting right-wing

Last November are amongst the wreckage of his burned-out flat,

police unpacked one of the biggest scandals of Germany's post war

history. The flat had been home to Beate Zschaepe, Uwe Boehnhardt, and

Uwe Mundlos, known neo-Nazi activists who had been on the run

for years after police linked them to a garage full of a bomb making

equipment back in 1988. But as the German public was about to discover,

they did not exactly keep a low profile. To earn extra cash, Beate

Zschaepe designed and sold a version of Monopoly. The

intelligence service showed us the game. Concentration camps are the

most desirable properties on the board. The trio is also believed to

have made this DVD, rather bizarrely using the Pink Panther

cartoon character to boast that they went on a ten-year killing

spree, carrying out at least nine a racially motivated murders

nationwide. As evidence, they used photos police say they talk of

their victims, shot in the head in broad daylight. Here, in a mocking

tone, the trio trumpets their authorship of this devastating

nail-bomb attack in a Turkish neighbourhood in 2004. 22 people

were injured, many of them seriously. The trio's says their

action answers the German nationalist's call to serve their

people and their country. They signed off as the National

Socialist Underground, echoing the National socialism of his club's

Germany. Police now believe Beate Zschaepe set fire to their flat and

then turned herself in but is reportedly refusing to talk. Her

accomplices were found dead elsewhere in an apparent murder

suicide. Had that not been the case, their work may have never come to

light. These revelations sent shockwaves across Germany. All the

more when it became apparent the trio's allegiance to the far right

and their violent tendencies were flagged up to the authorities even

up in the small East German town. TRANSLATION: All too often they put

one of us in hospital, or there would be a broken arm, nose, an

injury that needed new stitches. It was amongst the neo-Nazis at one

stage to stamp out burning cigarettes in their chests of 14-

year-old girls. Series intimidation. They were among the frontline of

neo-Nazis. We all knew them. We knew them because we were scared of

them on the streets at night. Their faces were seed into our memories.

Katharina Koenig says although she and her left-wing friends were

often attacked by the local neo- Nazis, the police did nothing.

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

acted with ignorance. The political background was completely ignored.

Later, when the neo-Nazi group began to murdered Turkish

businessmen, police again ignored the possibility of a right-wing

hate crime. They blamed the killings on the Turkish mafia. We

have seen a secret internal report revealing serious blunders by law

enforcement agencies. They had the group under close surveillance for

several years, but never took decisive action. Why weren't they

stopped before they began to kill? Helmut rover was the local

intelligence chief at the time. -- Helmut Roewer. It was necessary to

arrest those people at once. Police did not. Why? I cannot explain it.

I cannot explain it. We thought that we had them two or three times.

And it was not possible to arrest them. I cannot explain it. Don't

ask me. Don't ask me. We kept asking him, but he had no answers

for us. Allegations had been made in Germany not just of incompetence,

but of right-wing sympathies inside the country's secret services and

police force, something the institutions vehemently deny. Here

in Germany, it is impossible to discuss far-right or even

nationalist activity in isolation outside the context of this

country's Nazi past. Gemmy's post- war constitution was very much

written in the vein of never again. So the story of the nationalist

socialist underground throws up disturbing questions. Just how is

it that a group of militant neo- Nazis was allowed to flourish, and

just how popular and how powerful are the far right, and nationalist

extremists, in Germany today? Human rights groups say more than 180

people have been killed in right- wing attacks in Germany over the

last 20 years. Neo-Nazis have nerdy more people in post-war Germany

than any other single group including the slimness and the far

left. -- have murdered. But it is not reflected in official data. The

German government admits mistakes were made. Apparently there have

been hints and indications of right-wing extremism, but it was

not taken seriously enough. We have put this home the political agenda.

-- higher on. We urge the police and security institutions to do

their utmost in clarifying the reasons of failure. Nobody in

Germany expected to see such a well working at Network of right-wing

terrorism. But why is that? Martin is a former neo-Nazi leader. He has

left the movement and asked us to hide his identity. He says the neo-

Nazi trio's murderous exploits should have come as no surprise.

The militants said we need people who are willing and trained in case

it comes to civil war. It is armed and military. It leads to people

being killed. Weapons training is carried out in secret. In the Arab

world, for instance, with freedom movement there, the right wing

scene sees itself as a freedom of movement. And Martin was part of a

growing movement of secretive far right groups in Germany called the

Free forces. No longer only rooted in the past, these groups tend not

to call themselves Nazi or neo-Nazi, but rather, the Free forces. They

are attracting a new crowd, including the middle classes,

students and intellectuals. They are harnessing social media and

using new modern forms and means and reasons for protest. When it

comes to them one intelligent agent said the security services in

Germany are really out of their debt.

This group, the immortals, is part of the new crowd. Anti-

globalisation, anti-capitalists, and anti-democratic, they warn of

the impending extinction of the German people. Hard for the

authorities d'etat, they used text messaging to organise spontaneous

demonstrations across the country, like this one, in their propaganda

video. -- for the authorities to catch. After 15 minutes on the

streets they are gone. leadership is always trying to

attract members of the so-called upper-class as, students who one

day can act as lawyers or doctors, really do something to help the

movement. You would never imagine those sorts of people support for

the far right. They might -- they might deny their affiliation in

public but they are very much a part of the moment, more so now

than ever before. -- the movement. Far-right activists are somewhat

camera shy. But what exactly do they want? Based say they are

hounded by police and hemmed in by post-war German laws. -- they said.

We went to Berlin's best known neo- Nazi pub, the executioner, to see

if we could tempt the punters to talk. They have never met a camera

crew in here before, but after a couple of cocktails, the former

head of a now banned neo-Nazi groups sat down with us.

TRANSLATION: Who are we? We are nationalists. We care deeply about

our Fatherland. We don't like the state that exists now in Germany.

We want to be built -- rebuild the country for the citizens, the

German people. We want to protect our culture, our country, our

religion. In Britain, U2 are proud of your country. But I as a German

art -- and a second class citizen. Others get preferential treatment.

Those outside who say this pub is full of evil Nazis, how would they

know? They are afraid to talk to us. They tried to ban us. The British

owner of the pub asked us to hide his identity to protect his family.

He was amongst many that night who complained to us about strict

German laws they believe I used to persecute the far right. If the

German government make laws that you can't express your freedom of

speech, then there will be an uprising. It will happen. Just

because it will be forbidden. It will happen. If they let these laws

go then people will be a lot more free and say what they think. They

will be more discussion. They won't have as many political problems.

That is my feeling. But time does the pub owner. That's it. -- but I

am just. I have a regular crowd who comes here. A drink and discuss.

The police and state, they don't But many don't like the idea the

far right rejects the German state. The nationalists want a new order

in Germany, non-democratic and none multicultural. And in the meantime,

some are establishing what they call national liberated zones

dotted across the country. Political scientist Daniel took me

to this sprawling estate just outside Berlin, it has been dubbed

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

the Cold War times. If you look around the streets, looking at the

signs and the bus stops, you will find stickers, flyers, graffiti,

from forces showing that this territory is aimed at the right-

wing circles. You will find a broad spectrum. You will have the NDP

active here, and the Free forces, the neo-Nazi groups, the more

militant groups, and the youth organisations. You will find

basically established political circles and other neo-Nazi groups.

In this area of town years ago we had some clashes, some riots, even

some beatings and killings of people. They forced out what they

called the political enemy: Foreigners, left wingers, Democrats,

whatever. They achieved this basically some years ago. Right now

this area is more-or-less for them, free of political enemies.

Basically you were just change your living space.

We are now in the middle of the countryside. We're on our way to

the only village that really has been completely taken over by neo-

Nazis in Germany today. All of the houses but one are part of their

organisations. In the middle of the village is this Nazi Germany style

mural, proclaiming the area is free, social and national. The German

authorities recently forced the villagers here to take down a

signpost pointing towards Hitler's birthplace. People here weren't

particularly pleased to see us, all keen to talk to us. Prior to coming

here I had tried to organise an interview with the leading family

of the village, but they weren't keen on our camera. It is all about

ideology. This is the most dangerous threat. They want to

change the society from within. Far-right groups also run summer

camps, like this one in North Germany, filmed a few years ago.

This youth organisation was later banned. The German Interior

Ministry said it was indoctrinating children in Nazi ideology, as well

as giving them military training. But the courtship of youngsters

continues. The nationalists run youth clubs and sports clubs. They

are playing the social card in the current economic crisis, offering

welfare advice and family assistance, looking to attract new

supporters. They can't win over all parts of German society with anti-

Semitic and Nazi rhetoric. The welfare debate touches most people

these days. But it is fake. One well-known neo-Nazi activist said,

"We will make sure to be where people are suffering most, where

they are shouting for help. Eventually we will have them where

we want them". The NDP is the legal political wing of the far right. It

has elected representatives in two out of Germany's 16 state

This man is the leader of one of those parliaments. TRANSLATION:

German children need the land. We want to keep the German people a

live with our own biological vitality so that tomorrow and the

day after Germany still earns the name Germany, because imagine a

country called Germany that is filled only with Africans, with us

importing nice little sweet maker children. -- sweet little black

children. TRANSLATION: We don't want Germany to be the paymasters

of Greece and Ireland with all of their debts. We want out of the

euro. We want a good social programme for German children so

German families can have more children. We want security for

children in their old age. When you know that you will understand why

the established German authorities want to ban us.

The German government says it is looking to than the NPD because of

its association with extremists -- to ban.

And also its alleged links to the neo-Nazi Chela trio, the national

socialist underground. -- Chela trio.

-- killer trio. We want them to behave in a constitutional way. But

informally we have the impression that this is a party that is

hostile to the basic values of our constitution, the protection of

human dignity, equality of treatment, etc. The German

constitution, given the terrific experience of the Third Reich,

provides a possibility to ban political parties hostile to basic

values of the constitution. But it has to be proven, it has to show

evidence for this. The NPD is also criticised for its questioning of

the Holocaust. I asked them what they thought of Hitler.

TRANSLATION: Look here. If one speaks about a historical figure it

is impossible to do so during a short interview. I could ask lots

of people what they thought of Hitler, they would be able to

answer me in very few words. those are emotions and not facts. I

don't ask people in Dresden what they think of Bomber Harris.

you're totally avoiding my question, what do you think of Hitler, and

what of the six million Jews? me point out to you that in Germany

you are punishable by law if you don't ac don't acs'

version of what happened at Auschwitz birth canal. Every year

in Germany about 1,500 people are taken to court and prosecuted, and

sometimes thrown in jail because they raised doubts about specific

historical issues. I ask for your understanding. I do not want to

talk about these issues. I do not live in a free country. The Federal

Republic of Germany is not a free country in regard to this topic.

German nationalists say they represent the German people. Most

Germans insist they certainly do not. The statistics indicate the

euro crisis and wider economic woes mean increasing numbers are

sympathetic to the anti- immigrant Germans first message espoused by

the far right. This was the state memorial service

for the victims of the neo-Nazi trio, the NFU, earlier this year.

Just a few days before more than 2000 neo- Nazis marched in Preston.

At the Memorial there was a profound sense of remorse with

political promises to crack down on the far right. But as the story

fades from the national headlines, human rights groups are concerned