Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers

[tinoesroho]

GÜSTROW, Germany — 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.

Then they would kill them.

One member had already bought 30 body bags. More body bags were on an order list, investigators say, along with quicklime, which can be used to mask the stench of buried corpses.

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.

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

Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers...

This is some frightening shit: the far-right are forming death squads right in the open, and nobody is doing a damn thing to stop them.

[ChuckV]

A copy of Compact, a prominent far-right magazine, with President Trump’s face on the cover, lay on a shelf. A selection of the president’s speeches had been translated into German in the issue. “I like Trump,” Mr. Gross said.

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by, by and by?

[gatto]

@tinoesroho

This is some frightening shit:

[H]e has a YouTube subscription to RT, the Russian state-controlled channel and other alternative media.

In that parallel universe of disinformation, he learns that the government is secretly flying in refugees after midnight. That coronavirus is a ploy to deprive citizens of their rights. That Ms. Merkel works for what he calls the “deep state.”

“The deep state is global,” Mr. Gross said. “It’s big capital, the big banks, Bill Gates.”

it’s too bad our government here isn’t flying refugees in at night secretly. at least germany’s got something going for it.

it is interesting all the connections their far right makes to their experiences in east germany before the wall fell. there’s serious generational trauma there, and a steady diet of past misinformation for their parents and themselves.

it’s like theyve gone right back to their abusers: rt and putin’s russia ( him being a kgb officer ) - because that’s what feels normal, real, to them.

i wonder how that applies here, if at all, to boomers coming out of war, and the cold war. maybe propaganda feels more real to them than fact.

not that any of that helps to explain the racialized terrorism of white 20 and 30 somethings.