{"id":176236,"date":"2020-08-01T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/01\/history-rhyming\/"},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T23:32:00","slug":"history-rhyming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/01\/history-rhyming\/","title":{"rendered":"History Rhyming"},"content":{"rendered":"
The right wing has been systematically infiltrating the state security apparatus in Germany<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Considering Germany’s current state of European hegemon, this is particularly concerning:<\/p>\n

G\u00fcstrow, Germany \u2014 The plan sounded frighteningly concrete. The group would round up political enemies and those defending migrants and refugees, put them on trucks and drive them to a secret location.<\/p>\n

Then they would kill them.<\/p>\n

One member had already bought 30 body bags. More body bags were on an order list, investigators say, along with quicklime, used to decompose organic material.<\/p>\n

On the surface, those discussing the plan seemed reputable. One was a lawyer and local politician, but with a special hatred of immigrants. Two were active army reservists. Two others were police officers, including Marko Gross, a police sniper and former parachutist who acted as their unofficial leader.<\/p>\n

The group grew out of a nationwide chat network for soldiers<\/a> and others with far-right sympathies set up by a member of Germany\u2019s elite special forces, the KSK. Over time, under Mr. Gross\u2019s supervision, they formed a parallel group of their own. Members included a doctor, an engineer, a decorator, a gym owner, even a local fisherman.<\/p>\n

They called themselves Nordkreuz, or Northern Cross.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

They denied they had plotted to kill anyone. But investigators and prosecutors, as well an account one member gave to the police \u2014 transcripts of which were seen by The New York Times \u2014 indicate their planning took a more sinister turn.<\/p>\n

Germany has belatedly begun dealing with far-right networks that officials now say are far more extensive than they ever understood. The reach of far-right extremists into its armed forces is particularly alarming in a country that has worked to cleanse itself of its Nazi past and the horrors of the Holocaust. In July the government disbanded an entire company<\/a> infiltrated by extremists in the nation\u2019s special forces.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Far-right extremism penetrated multiple layers of German society in the years when the authorities underestimated the threat or were reluctant to countenance it fully, officials and lawmakers acknowledge. Now they are struggling to uproot it.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Neo-Nazi groups and other extremists call it Day X \u2014 a mythical moment when Germany\u2019s social order collapses, requiring committed far-right extremists, in their telling, to save themselves and rescue the nation.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI fear we\u2019ve only seen the tip of the iceberg,\u201d said Dirk Friedriszik, a lawmaker in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where Nordkreuz was founded. \u201cIt isn\u2019t just the KSK. The real worry is: These cells are everywhere. In the army, in the police, in reservist units.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

German imposition of sado-monetarism on the rest of the EU has led to a resurgence of right wing nationalism in both Europe and the EU, and now we know that Germany is not immune to the toxic reaction to its misguided ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The right wing has been systematically infiltrating the state security apparatus in Germany. Considering Germany’s current state of European hegemon, this is particularly concerning: G\u00fcstrow, Germany \u2014 The plan sounded frighteningly concrete. The group would round up political enemies and those defending migrants and refugees, put them on trucks and drive them to a secret …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,630,629,374,373],"class_list":["post-176236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-fascism","tag-politics","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}