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Reporting on the “Germany's biggest ever neo-Nazi trial”, which opens on May 6 in Munich, Tageszeitung publishes a list of the 10 victims (nine immigrants and one German) of the far right terrorist group, National Socialist Underground (NSU), on its front page.
Five members of the group are charged with murder. The main defendant, 38-year-old Beate Zschäpe, the newspaper wonders: “Is she guilty? Did she organise the racist murders of nine people? Or did she [only] provide cover for the neo-Nazi trio [the two other members of the group, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, committed suicide in 2011] without being aware of anything else?”
The daily continues —
The trial of the NSU is not comparable with the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals or the Auschwitz Trial […]: it is simply not on the same scale. But there is a common thread: even the name “National Socialist Underground” is clear evidence of the tradition that inspired the NSU. […] A full 18 months after the dismantling of the NSU, we still do not understand how a neo-Nazi terrorist group could have been left unhindered to conduct robberies, plant bombs and assassinate 10 people over a period of more than a decade in a country with a history of Nazi criminals.
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