No joke: The East German secret police had informers in the extreme right-wing Milieu of the Federal Republic of Germany. In order to destabilize the class enemy? Hardly. You had other people. The real reason, apparently, was much more banal.
The 1991 late neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen (2.v.l.) at a Meeting of the “action front of National socialists” in 1978
Autumn 1989: The old men in power in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In front of the own population – and right-wing extremists from the West. In our own country, many thousands of people since the beginning of September every Monday on the road. They demand freedom to travel, chanting “We are the people” and “No violence!”.
In this troubled atmosphere, the Department XXII of the Ministry for state security (MfS), worrying news about an “action group a Free and Democratic Germany”. People from West-Berlin “Republican” plan, allegedly incendiary attacks on the urban border crossings in the Chaussee Strasse and Heinrich-Heine-Straße. You should also endeavour to pneumatic hammers, so as not to damage the wall at the Brandenburg gate.
October 1989: the “Monday demonstration” on the Karl-Marx-Platz in Leipzig
A book Premiere at the spy Museum
The worst fears of the MfS, better known as the “Stasi”, seem to be true. They fit perfectly to the years of the GDR Propaganda about the alleged fascist Germany. The right-wing extremist scene has the Stasi since the mid-1970s in the visor. In East Berlin you care about, namely, the West German neo-Nazis could influence the GDR, says secret service expert Andreas Förster. The Journalist has just been presented in Berlin his new book: “the target object to the Right”. Was presented with an ironic wink of the eye – in German espionage Museum.
With compressed air the wall hammers attack at the Brandenburg gate? The Stasi obviously believed in it (see the image of 1962)
Forester researched for decades the secret services of East and West. Also about the Stasi and their Liaison with West German neo-Nazis, he writes. But still he is never immersed so deeply in this matter as of this Time. His main sources are, not surprisingly, the Stasi-archives. The files of course of study, Förster wins the impression, “is that it avoids the Stasi, active people to recruit”.
The enemy has a name: GDR
With the left-wing extremist Milieu, there seems to be less fear of contact. “We are all for peace and justice” – with such slogans the MfS, contacts with like-minded people on the other side of the English attempts to establish the German borders. In the case of right-wing extremists, one is more cautious – because of their anti-Communist attitude and the “enemy image of the GDR”. Nevertheless, the Stasi, the neo-Nazis close to – with the help of so-called “self-provider”.
People who are often financially strapped as the informer of the domestic secret service, a small extra income want to earn. “This is today, and it was already so,” commented Forester is a timeless phenomenon in the intelligence world. Well, the Stasi didn’t feel. You touch these people with “tips of fingers”. Your Knowledge takes you, but above all, a concern remains: to be of a hostile intelligence service linked and then in a West German newspaper read: “The Stasi messing with neo-Nazis!”
Neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen, a Snitch?
A direct line to the Nazi-sizes in the other part of Germany, can’t connect to the Stasi. However, she learns quite a lot about the right-wing extremist Milieu. The most prominent case, Michael Kühnen. In the 1980s, he is the most influential figure within the West German Nazi-scene with contacts abroad. Hardly the Berlin wall fell, he / she shall submit a “construction program of the East”. Such messages are registered with the Stasi in the last months of its existence.
1978: Michael Kühnens “action front of National socialists” in a public Holocaust denial in Hamburg
Bold, it was always about creating an “ideologically-based” organization, “the political objectives”, says book author Forester. Because of sedition and of neo-fascist Propaganda, he sits four years behind bars. When he is allowed to leave the prison in Celle (lower Saxony) in 1982, waiting for a Taxi on the neo-Nazi, to drive him to Hamburg. If you believe the Stasi, increases Bold in a cloaked car of the constitutional protection. If that’s true? Forester Demands of the domestic intelligence service remain inconclusive.
The exaggerated fear of attacks in the GDR
The Stasi keeps Bold to the last for a Snitch of the constitutional protection. She fears he could influence the growing neo-Nazi scene in the GDR. With the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and German reunification a year later, the Stasi ends-infiltration of the right-wing extremist Milieus, inevitably. The DDR fails, ultimately, to yourself. Their fear of fascist attacks from the West was probably exaggerated.
Meter-long shelves with Stasi files of the Department for right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany (the Icon)
Some of the Stasi-insights from long-past times, for other reasons, depressing. In a report from the 1988 protection of Informers (V-people) is 17 Constitution, right-wing extremist organizations, the speech, and 22 suspected cases to be called. What is the fatal role of such people in the United Germany since 1990, was the “national socialist underground” (NSU). The right-wing extremist terrorist group killed ten people and injured more than twice as many in bomb attacks.
Martina Renner: the protection of the Constitution-files open!
The germ cell of the NSU of the key from the protection of the Constitution-Spies-by-step Thuringian homeland protection (THS) was. How deep is the secret entangled service in this network, has for years, parliamentary committees of inquiry and investigative journalists working how Andreas Förster. They all make the same frustrating experience: files disappear, are redacted or remain under seal. The members of the Bundestag Martina Renner (Left) has experienced the for many years.
You know, what is the protection of the Constitution about the attack on the Munich Oktoberfest in 1980, with 13 dead and over 200 injured white. Doubt as to the state’s Hypothesis of a right-wing extremist individual offender are never silenced. Therefore, Martina Renner calls to open files that have a reference to right-wing terrorist structures since the 1970s. So she hopes, unresolved cases of “historically situated, politically enlighten, and to draw consequences”. Renner calls it a “unacceptable” that 40 years previous incidents, “are still locked by the authorities”.