The dossier also found that more than 500 files linked to far-right extremism had simply disappeared.
Hardly surprising, given that it's frequently impossible to say where the nazi orgs end and the Verfassungsschutz (the intelligence agency supposed to keep an eye on them) begins.
For example, one of their agents, Andreas Temme, was present at the site of one of the NSU murders, when Halit Yozgat got shot in his internet café. He was there while the murder happened, claiming not to have heard the suppressed shot and not having seen the body bleeding out behind the counter as he left the place. The entire story is full of things like that, and it's an open secret that the NSU was more than just three people, that they had people supplying weapons, passports and money to them, that what they did was known in the militant neonazi scene etc.
More than 390 files have been leaked!
Around 500 files were deleted. Weird!
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Denazification like Reconstruction never went far enough after the war
And then there was renazification of :GDR: after the annexation. The total collapse of the DDR government and the complete strip mining of the East German economy that led to 86% of the working populace being unemployed at least once in the post-collapse years created material conditions that were ripe for fascist radicalization and that were amply used by masses of nazi organizers flowing in from the west. There are areas of East Germany that have downright nazi settlements now. Fascist violence was an everyday occurence in the early 90s, up to and including pogroms with masses of nazi skinheads bussed in from all over the country and eager locals besieging refugee shelters for days. That's the milieu the NSU grew out of. It was systematically enabled by the capitalist destruction of already existing socialism.
BTW similar things happened all over the post-soviet space. Chuds like Victor Orbán became respected colleagues of "moderate" western conservatives due to their staunch anti-communism, clerico-fascist groups, both catholic and orthodox, expanded their influence as the subdueing of their churches' influences that had been a necessary prerequisite for the drastic feminist advances of AES states vanished. Capitalism left people only the choice between the most ravenous neo-liberalism and fascism, and many chose accordingly.
Didn't Hitler literally get his start being sent to a group connected to the Thule society to investigate but decided he liked what they said?
