If Hitler's salute is shown somewhere, he incites to force or explosives are collected, an informant from the Constitution Protection Office is usually not far away. This is besides shown by Karlheinz Weißmann in his fresh book "Between the Reich and the Republic – the past of the German Right Postwar".
This is simply a real revelation! Find out more here. Years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, tv reports about neo-Nazis flourished. For a case of beer or 50 marks, many skinhead raised his right hand in front of the camera, young people marching down the streets in brown shirts, arsons in Mölln and Solingen shook public opinion. The Republicans' and DVU's election successes have besides come. Thus, the main political magazines had adequate material to announce the dawn of the 4th Reich.
Hitler's grandkids were mainly smitten by a coverage aired by the tv “Spiegel” on 20 September 1992: The group, in most masked characters, gathered at a erstwhile military camp close Erfurt to practice, as they say, "Attack the home for asylum seekers". The alleged weapons and explosives were presented, and as the commander of the branch, a certain 1 was presented Thomas Dienel.
At the time, the 31-year-old was no alien to tv viewers "Spiegel": in another report, a erstwhile associate of the NPD, who was now president of the sinister German National organization (DNP), shouted out to supporters: "No 1 died in Auschwitz. And I will say this plainly: unfortunately, no 1 died.” This appearance not only brought Dienel a conviction for incitement to hatred, but seemingly besides recommended himself as an informant for national intelligence services. After serving imprisonment in 1996 and 1997, he contacted the National Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia a full of 93 times.
In 1 of the interviews he later said that a servant initially introduced himself to him as a probation officer. As an informant under the code name “Küche” born in Weimar, a man charged a wage of about 22,000 German brands (plus 6 800 German brands for “food spending”). Of course, he did not renounce his beliefs, but continued to agitate cheerfully – now on the VS ticket.
Ten years later, Dienel returned to the jury with 13 friends for insurance fraud. There was besides 1 of the most disgusting characters always released by the German neo-Nazi scene: Tino Brandt. Pygniker, who came from Rudolstadt, was a multi-functional right-wing extremist scene: not only held advanced positions in the NPD, but was besides active in creating the infamous Thuringian interior Security, in which the trio NSU Böhnhardt, Mundlos and Zschäpe played.
Under the pseudonym “Otto” he has worked as an informant for LfV since 1994. erstwhile he and another informants were caught in May 2001, the Chief of Service of Helmut Roewer had to resign. “Der Spiegel” wrote at the time that the Turin VS did a lot to “support the NPD’s thesis that the Constitution’s Conservation Office pushes the organization into the corner of militant neo-Naziism so that it can be banned faster”.
In fact, Brandt's file—without mention to his spy activities—was a central component of the national government's proposal to delegalize the NPD in 2001. The human misery that opened up in the "state" Nazi became clear erstwhile he was sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison in December 2014 for sexual abuse of children and young people, aiding and inciting sexual abuse and promoting prostitution in 66 cases.
Spies and provokers
But the infiltration of right-wing extremist structures with informants from the Constitution Protection Office has been known not only since the 1990s. The following are any cases from 2 decades before and in the late 1990s:
Werner Gottwald: The convicted impostor and bankrupt from Oldenburg, Lower Saxony from 1973 to 1977 spy on the national Constitution Protection Office and for the agency's cognition supplied short arms, device guns, hand grenades and plastic explosives worth about EUR 250,000 to the neo-Nazi stage.
Hans-Dieter Lepsien: The Informationary of the National Office for the Protection of the Lower Saxony Constitution was 1 of the key figures of the alleged Braunschweig Group, which carried out respective bombings in northern Germany in 1977. A taxi driver from Peine, who besides belonged to the National Socialist Action Front (ANS) of Michael Kühnen and US-controlled NSDAP/AO, acquired explosives, constructed bombs and instigated his likewise reasoning friends to commit crimes. The Ministry of the Interior in Hanover appealed against the judgement to the national Court of Justice, paid even a leading lawyer from the Munich law firm known as Rolf Bossi's lawyer and filed a motion for pardon with the national President. Eventually, the punishment was waived for an informant of peculiar services.
NSDAP/AO safety officer was active in the neo-Nazi scene in West Berlin. In 1983, he revealed himself to the police and reported a conspiracy gathering of 17 June 1977, which concluded agreements on robberies and robberies. ‘One tenth of the Nazis present at this gathering were informants” said writer Burkhard Schröder from Telepolis. He besides revealed links between right-wing extremists and the CIA.
Joachim Appeal: The main propagandist of the alleged Kampfgemeinschaft Nationaler Sozialisten of Emden gained weapons and helped in arson. At a proceeding before the National Court in Aurich, he stated that he had been employed in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Lower Saxony.
Norbert Schnelle: Informationator of the National Office of VS North Rhine-Westphalia initially operated in the Young National Democrates (JN), a youth NPD organization. From 1983 to 1985 he received about 14,400 German brands from the office, which he invested in the construction of the Nationalist Front (NF), which was later delegated. The head of their security, Michael Wobbe, who was recruited by Lower Saxony VS in 1992, later said that without Schnelle “there would be no association”.
The Secretary-General: DVU politician was removed from power by BfV erstwhile he entered the Parliament of Bremen in 1991. He had previously conducted investigation on his organization for years.
Marcel Degner: In 1996, the leading Blood & Honour group from Thuringia organized a neo-Nazi expedition to Buchenwald Memorial, which was reported nationwide. From 1996 to 2000, he was a VS spy.
Toni Stadler: In 2001/02 he worked for LfV Brandenburg. At the time he was head of sales in the neo-Nazi band White Aryan Rebels, who called for the execution of tv presenters Alfred Biołek and Michel Friedman on his album Notes of Hate.
Doris König: In 2008/09, she was included on the list of whistleblowers of Lower Saxony VS under the code name “Sandra Franke”. It spread anti-Semitism and negation of the Holocaust through the European Brotherhood Radio under the pseudonym “Gefjon”.
Soft hat and brass castes
Over time, the field of operation of the Constitution Protection Office has expanded enormously. In 1993 documentary WInfried Bonengel for taxpayers' money, he made the movie "Beruf Neonazi", in which he next to Michael Kühnen became a right-wing extremist of Bela Ewald Althans – 1 of the leading figures of the scene at the time. The horror item of the movie is the series from the Auschwitz Memorial. Althans denies mass murdering Jews.
At that time, the blond giant was the contact of German-Canadian Holocaust negator Ernst Zündel and ran a propaganda store in Munich. After years with a large pump, he left the neo-Nazi community and revealed cooperation with the US authorities. It is said that in a fewer years of service they paid him a full of six figures. Since then, he's been organizing an SM event for the gay scene.
But as in erstwhile years, informants did not limit themselves to agitation, but committed serious crimes. The following cases are outstanding:
Bernd Schmitt: Informationator of the NRW Constitution Protection Office ran a martial arts school in Solingen. In the 1993 arson trial in the city of Bergisches Land, it turned out that it virtually inflamed young perpetrators. Schmitt himself had been convicted 17 times earlier, including for theft, fraud and assault. LfV recruited him in 1992, founded a German martial arts association and infiltrated the structures of right-wing extremists, including the Nationalist Front.
Thomas Lemke: In 1996, under this code name, an informant from the National Crime Office of Baden-Württemberg became known, who in erstwhile years encouraged young people to make friends in Karlsruhe. He was later found guilty of 3 murders he committed to cover up sexual crimes. According to his own testimony, he acted "at the command of the Germanic god of Odin's death". He went to the psychiatric ward.
Michał Grube: The erstwhile NPD territory president in Wismar was involved, among others, in the planning and setting fire to the pizza store in Grevesmühlen and beat up a teenager to specified an degree that he was hospitalized. At the end of 1999, it was revealed that in 1997 he was employed as an informant at the State Constitution Protection Office in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Scriptnamed ‘Martin’). In 2001, “Der Spiegel” reported: “Grube joined an ultraradical group – besides at the request of the authorities. Reason given by his informant, leader: There are adequate spies in the NPD." His fresh division was the Socialist People's organization (SVP).
The bomb breaks
Probably the largest infection bomb detonated in 2002 during the first illegalization proceedings against the NPD erstwhile it came to light that Udo Holtmann and Wolfgang Frenz, the 2 leading organization officers who provided quite a few incriminating materials worked for VS for years, the second even since 1961.
The national Constitutional Court dismissed the proceedings in 2003 as it could no longer be certain that another informants had contributed to ‘no distance towards the state’, as stated in the explanatory memorandum. How much neo-Naziism and right-wing extremism can be attributed to VS spies today, 1 can only speculate. But if we look at past cases, there's most likely going to be quite a few that.
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