The National Socialist Underground (NSU) murdered 10 people and was behind bombings and bank raids in the early 2000s. A report on intelligence failures, meant to stay secret for 120 years, has now been published.
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.
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.