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The recent story of Beate Zschäpe that has been brought to light in Germany highlights the additional modern problems and difficulties affecting ordinary and everyday citizens there. There is a an attitude pervasive among extreme right - wing activists and their associates in FRG at this point that calls for anti - foreign politics and administration and a message of preserving what the rightists there see as the national heritage or national trust. Much has been made of this in the national political debate there and media discussions as well, enough to invite the ban of the major extreme right - wing party, the NPD.
The origin of the case of Ms. Zschäpe and her cohorts has been traced to a part of the country with a particularly dark past given what happened there during WWII against the Allies. Anti - foreign and other extreme - right feelings are still harboured in places in Germany, but this is even more true in larger areas in the former East Germany. This presents a problem of public safety and other difficulties for authorities to deal with serious and capital crimes as discussed in this current case, and in some cases as here, the perpetrators did not appear to have sympathies among the police, though the police were at a loss to deal with the actual criminal elements they found and then therefore to try constructively to investigate and then to make arrests.
The reasons for the neo - nazi surge and resurgence in places like the former East Germany has to do with the legacy of the past, probably going back a hundred years, where the promise of a 'radiant future' enticed the populace of the area first into the political persuasions of one group, then another, then with the oppression of the former soviet regime followed by the economic depression there associated with the collapse of the soviets and the arrival of free - enterprise and more permissions and freedoms concerning political ideas. In many cases, the German authorities during the 1980's forward had methods to deal with the threat of the extreme right and its violent and criminal elements, and only occasionally at the time did anyone outside isolated observances of instances of neo - nazi events or crimes know there was cause for concern about such matters. The issue of the doings of Ms. Zschäpe and her associates has called for a re - evaluation of the local authorities there and their effectiveness in dealing with the conspiratorial and collusive, and violent crimes of such persons. See below for German press coverage links.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-chief-prosecutors-talks-to-spiegel-about-impending-nsu-trial-a-868133.html
http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2012-04/nsu-zschaepe
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005199
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
The origin of the case of Ms. Zschäpe and her cohorts has been traced to a part of the country with a particularly dark past given what happened there during WWII against the Allies. Anti - foreign and other extreme - right feelings are still harboured in places in Germany, but this is even more true in larger areas in the former East Germany. This presents a problem of public safety and other difficulties for authorities to deal with serious and capital crimes as discussed in this current case, and in some cases as here, the perpetrators did not appear to have sympathies among the police, though the police were at a loss to deal with the actual criminal elements they found and then therefore to try constructively to investigate and then to make arrests.
The reasons for the neo - nazi surge and resurgence in places like the former East Germany has to do with the legacy of the past, probably going back a hundred years, where the promise of a 'radiant future' enticed the populace of the area first into the political persuasions of one group, then another, then with the oppression of the former soviet regime followed by the economic depression there associated with the collapse of the soviets and the arrival of free - enterprise and more permissions and freedoms concerning political ideas. In many cases, the German authorities during the 1980's forward had methods to deal with the threat of the extreme right and its violent and criminal elements, and only occasionally at the time did anyone outside isolated observances of instances of neo - nazi events or crimes know there was cause for concern about such matters. The issue of the doings of Ms. Zschäpe and her associates has called for a re - evaluation of the local authorities there and their effectiveness in dealing with the conspiratorial and collusive, and violent crimes of such persons. See below for German press coverage links.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-chief-prosecutors-talks-to-spiegel-about-impending-nsu-trial-a-868133.html
http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2012-04/nsu-zschaepe
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005199
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
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See also: http://www.dw.de/a-series-of-missteps-preceded-the-nsu-trial/a-16791577
See also these hypertext links:
a. http://world.time.com/2013/05/15/germanys-neo-nazi-trial/
b. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/nsu-trial-hears-damaging-testimony-against-zschaepe-a-911596.html
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