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BY RUISHA QIAN

New evidence has been uncovered that suggests neo-Nazis killed nine foreign-born workers and a German policewoman who were shot in broad daylight in several German cities between 2000 and 2007. This, after the neo-Nazis apparently killed each other. Euronews reports...

“Two dead men, one woman under arrested, and now German police have detained another man in a neo-Nazi case that has shocked the nation ... Police say they found weapons used in killings and confessional DVDs in a burning house in Zwickau. Two male suspects were found dead in a caravan in an apparent double suicide.”

The suspects were all thought to be members of a group called the National Socialist Underground and were active in a far-right group since the 1990s called Thüringer Heimatschutz, which was thought to behind a number of letter bombings. Then the three disappeared. Der Spiegel has more.

“Arrest warrants were issued, but none of the suspects were detained. Although they had already been under observation prior to the house searches, [the three] were able to evade capture. … Some believe they had organized support during their 13 years underground.”

Some say a German intelligence agency provided that support -- but the agency denies those rumors. Still, the news shows a concerning trend for most Germans -- The Daily Mail reports neo-Nazi Incidents increased last year, and economic troubles make young people easier to recruit.

A reporter for BusinessWeek adds.

“The Interior Ministry counted about 5,600 people in neo-Nazi groups last year, an increase from about 5,000 in 2009. On Sept. 21, the government banned the country’s largest active neo-Nazi group, an organization that sought to spread its message through support to imprisoned extremists.”

Politicians have recently highlighted the issue. The Daily Mail catalogued the reactions of several prominent German politicians to news of the neo-Nazi findings.

“Interior minister Hans-Peter Friedrich spoke of a 'dimension of right-wing terrorism that we have not experienced before'... Chancellor Angela Merkel, bogged down as she is with the euro crisis, took time out at a conference of her CDU party to say: 'We must be ever vigilant against such forms of extremism on the right.'”

 

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Does Germany Have a Growing Neo-Nazi Problem?

November 14, 2011
(2:00)
A new suspect was arrested by German police for his possible involvement in multiple killings years ago by a neo-Nazi.
   
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