The NSU-Complex (2016) - full transcript

Germany for Germans, foreigners out!

Now, we'll show you how we storm

the buildings of the asylum seekers

and their left-wing friends.

Paramilitary training, class struggle
etc., raised fists...

We grew up with that here.

It was totally out of control.

He didn't seem mature enough
in that respect.

But otherwise, as a person, he was fine.

This was when I first became aware
of the right-wing scene in Jena.

I was beaten up properly
for the first time in '93,



on my way home from a football match,

by three Nazis, a woman, who was
Beate Zschäpe's best friend, and two men.

They weren't playing around.

Every week, we heard reports
about people getting beaten, hospitalized.

Every week!

Downtown, where we were still able
to move around quite safely,

got dangerous on Tuesdays
at around 10:00, 10:30 at night.

The Nazis would wait for us
with baseball bats in cars.

Anyone coming out of the youth club
was a target.

They would follow them slowly
to a darker road, and then grab them.

"Did you hear Wohlleben has a new car?

And that he recently drove Mundlos' car?
Any idea what he's driving?"

We wanted to completely
incapacitate the left,

push them out of here, shatter them.



The full package to the limit.

The fact that no one was killed here
surprises me more than anything.

But people did die.

People were murdered by Nazis

in Magdeburg, in Zerbst.

During the attacks on the refugee camps.

It did happen.

the refugees, the foreigners,
the immigrants.

There was no need
to go to the refugee camps.

To get this information,
we needed people on the inside.

You need to have people nearby
who can supply intelligence

about criminal plans
and about the key players.

But we want to know more
about terrorist structures,

and in order to acquire this information,
it's sometimes unavoidable

They are not just sources,
but they are human beings that we lead.

We assign them to a certain mission,

to inquire whether particular people
have seen or heard anything important.

a few years later, as of 1995,

demonstrations, leaflets, and political
campaigns became more important.

The attacks didn't decrease,
but political marches were more visible.

RUDOLF HESS DIED 9 YEARS AGO
YOU'RE IN OUR THOUGHTS

by the political work anymore.

So they passed it on to Herr Brandt.
All phone numbers, addresses, everything.

And he took control.

Right after the German reunification,

I moved to the West, to Regensburg,
for an internship.

But when I saw the drugs, this vermin,

this mob of scruffy leftists,
I knew it was not what I was looking for.

It was the first time
that the public focused

on Peace Ambassador Rudolf Hess.

No one was killed in Auschwitz.

And let me be clear.
Unfortunately, no one was killed.

And we, as a generation
of young Germans,

unfortunately, have not killed anyone!

When the first house searches began,

it became obvious that the government
persecution from the West

was just a bad as the old persecution
from the Eastern secret police.

For us, the socialist East wasn't perfect,

but West Germany was not
what we wanted either.

So, as German socialists,
we took a third path,

the path of National Socialism.

It was during the Rudolf Hess march.
We had a poster: "Revenge for Hess."

Below it, there was a swastika,

and the poster was connected
to the dummy bomb.

Then, there was another dummy bomb

on a stone memorial
for the victims of fascism.

Well-known figures like the comrades
from Jena, myself, and the three--

Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt,
and Beate Zschäpe-- all participated.

Later, there were police investigations,

wire-taps, house searches.

They produced a lot of paper.

He was well-trained, well-schooled,
immune to their tricks. He was a fanatic.

especially for our more violent conflicts.

We can safely assume
that it is a terrorist threat

when people start hanging straw effigies

of Mr. Bubis from a bridge.

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TO EACH HIS OWN

We campaigned actively
against historical lies.

We protested the defamation
of German soldiers as war criminals,

a generalization we never accepted.

OUR GRANDFATHERS
WERE NOT CRIMINALS

with access to information about
all unmarked police cars in Thuringia.

We pretty much knew
who was following us.

Sometimes, we even went over
and brought them coffee and stuff.

We listened in on police frequencies,
so we pretty much knew what was going on.

We had a comprehensive overview
of right-wing activities in Thuringia,

COMPOSITION OF ALL RIGHT-WING
GROUPS IN THURINGIA

ABSOLUTE POWER!

and that's what happened every Friday--

it was clear they planned
to strike big someday.

WE'RE FED UP
WITH ALL THE LIES AND DECEIT

THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING

"Best wishes for an explosive new year."

And surprisingly,
we heard nothing of significance.

They were aware that Tino Brandt
worked for Domestic Intelligence.

That was the reason
why some neo-Nazis cooperated with him.

It minimized the risk

that they would be prosecuted
when they were accused of a crime.

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE

Award Adolf Hitler!
Award Adolf Hitler with the Nobel Prize!

Raise the red flag!
Raise the red flag with the swastika!

The concerts were followed by interviews
with local media outlets.

Domestic Intelligence chose this
as an opportunity to contact us.

First, they asked questions
during the interview.

Then, they sought my cooperation.

Political work is expensive.
Weekend demonstrations and large events...

You can't afford these expenses
on a regular salary.

And I never could have covered
the legal costs

if the Intelligence Service
hadn't reimbursed me.

We were receiving warnings
from my partners at Domestic Intelligence

that various police investigations
were now being carried out against us.

Police officers often came to me
with complaints

that their searches
never turned up anything.

They were frustrated,

and they often felt the neo-Nazis
were even making fun of them.

"So, you're finally showing up?"
They felt ridiculed.

The deeper I got with my investigation,
the more appalled I was.

I could see what had happened.

It was obvious how important it had become
to protect the source.

It was self-defense.

If he hadn't shot at them,
they would have shot him.

Big deal.
That's what it was like back then.

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We told each other what we'd bought.

One had bought a rifle.
The other one, a pistol.

We shared ideas on how to turn
mock-up weapons into real ones.

Someone copied me,
I copied someone else.

There was a witness
who claimed a bazooka had been fired.

about contacts between a local,
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann,

the fanatic former leader
of Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann,

It was all here in my jurisdiction,
here in Thuringia.

I then received clear instructions
from the State Security Office

to drop my investigations
into Karl-Heinz Hoffmann.

Hoffmann, I was told, was a political
pensioner and of no interest to me.

He did not fall under the scope
of my investigation.

I know of no comparable operations

of this scale that we've supported
when recruiting sources.

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We started discussing whether it was time
to form a military army,

similar to the Red Army Faction (RAF).

At least, to blow up something,
a memorial stone or something.

In the beginning,
we didn't actually want to hurt people.

My criminal expertise grew
out of the development of the RAF.

And we now recognized identical processes
in the right-wing scene.

I could not use the term
"Brown Army Faction."

A state secretary expressly forbade that.

was fully functional.

Only the power source
for the detonator was missing.

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was commissioned
to observe the Jena Fellowship.

But we had to withdraw them.

The official version is that an agent

from Domestic Intelligence

had been observing them.

and had seen them enter the garage
and close the door.

End of story.

TARGET

because, at the turn of the year '97/'98,

the public prosecutor

wanted to grant Böhnhardt
a holiday amnesty for Christmas.

so they spared him.

NATIONALISM - AN IDEA SEEKS ACTIVISTS!

called in sick.

The key detective on the case
was away on training.

Böhnhardt was able to take one of the cars
and simply drive away.

the three were able to flee.

An arrest warrant was expected

since the police found more
than just propaganda materials.

The police also found explosives,
so they were going underground.

To us, they were comrades.

So, of course, we helped out
when they were in trouble.

They were staying with their Nazi friends,
with the support of the Nazis.

RE: "USBV IN JENA"
IN PARTICULAR: "TRIPLET" CASE

It was kind of a cult.

A parallel society, really.

There are foreigners everywhere.
They want to take everything away.

All politicians are controlled by Jews.
It's horrible.

This made people aware
of the White Aryan Resistance.

People said, "There are only a few of us,
and we have to cooperate internationally

in order to achieve our objectives."

People were sure it was coming soon.
We just didn't know when.

They organized lots of concerts.
There were record companies.

It was a license to print money,
almost like the mob.

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They had an issue
because they needed new passports,

which, of course, costs money.

Donations were trickling off,

so Domestic Intelligence decided to help.

They gave me money,
which I forwarded to the trio.

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The gun was fired at head or chest height.

You can still see the bullet holes,
here and over there.

If you think the time is ripe
and you are ready, do it.

But don't tell anyone.

Violence was definitely an issue.

I never witnessed any concrete planning,

but the propaganda machine
was pumping up the pressure

Among other things,
I was asked to translate a brochure.

There's a big difference
between reading a text and translating it.

To translate,
you cannot just skim through it.

I think a lot of young people had no idea
what or whom they were following.

Some don't realize it
until they are right on the brink

and have to look terror--

there's no other name for it--
directly in the eye.

I believe our analysis was indeed correct.
We saw that it was possible.

What we were missing
was concrete information

and sources of information
on the fugitive trio

and their fanatical supporters.

"LEADER OF THE PACK"

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E. SIMSEK WILL REALIZE NOW
HOW SERIOUSLY WE TAKE

THE PRESERVATION
OF THE GERMAN NATION

I employed Mr. Marschner
from 2000 to 2001

and clearing sites for subsequent work.

He kept these people out of trouble.

They were busy on the building site.

My impression was that they could
get rid of their aggression there.

The man in this picture
was Mr. Marschner's foreman.

He had a striking moustache...

and always dressed in black.

His eyebrows are also very striking.

If I noticed things during site visits,

I could discuss them with this man.

-Good morning, Mr. Marschner.
-Get off the property immediately.

-Did you--?
-Get off the property immediately!

Yes, we're leaving the property.

Could you tell us
whether you employed Mr. Mundlos?

No, I didn't. Immediately!
There'll be trouble, real trouble!

And clear off with your camera!

Others had difficult personalities
and were extremely difficult to handle.

But, at the time, the decision was made,

rather than deactivating them as sources,
to continue to handle them

because they were seen to be providing
valuable information at the time.

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THANK YOU, NSU.
WE WERE SUCCESSFUL.

THE FIGHT GOES ON...

DONER MURDER
WHO KNOWS THE VICTIM?

which states that victims were either
members of a criminal organization

or had been threatened
by a criminal organization.

At this time,
no one was claiming responsibility.

The only link was the weapon,
the Ceská 83.

The Domestic Intelligence Agency
was still dedicated to clarification.

"Where are these three people
and what are they doing?"

The front was pointing
towards the doorway.

Then I carried on, went into the kitchen
to get some hot water.

At that moment,
there was a big explosion.

I thought the guy was blonde,

but the police asked me
if he might not have had dark hair.

At that moment,
I lost all confidence in the police.

They were trying to push me
in the wrong direction.

Actually, several months
after the BAO Bosporus

started its work in autumn 2005,

we began to have initial doubts
about the so-called "Organization Theory,"

that the perpetrators came
from organized crime,

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What disturbed us most
was that the killers kept the weapon.

Using the same weapon again and again

establishes associations for us...

connecting the individual crimes.

This is a difficult
behavioral pattern to explain,

particularly in the context
of organized crime,

whose ultimate interest
is to work covertly

and avoid attention.

He was not at all
interesting ideologically

because he was totally focused
on all Nordic gods.

I wouldn't describe him
as particularly intelligent,

but he was very active.

Somebody invited him over
so we could get to know him.

He was there from its founding.

We were convinced
we were the good guys.

It comes down
to the love for your own race.

It wasn't about hating others.
We simply wanted racial segregation.

this source was supplying
was so valuable

that we would continue to use it
despite the risks.

was used as a file name.

It certainly doesn't prove that Corelli

knew the NSU under that name

The forensic investigations
were still active,

so I had to wear protective clothes.

Also, I experienced the scene myself.

It was, of course, very unusual to us
that the one person

who was present
and was neither identified

nor made themselves available
as a witness,

was employed by Domestic Intelligence.

he apparently didn't see the man
who had been shot lying on the floor.

People perceive things differently.

I think I would have noticed this person
from where I was standing.

I have had to take statements
I did not believe.

Temme's is one of them.

I found it hard to believe.

"Would an arrest warrant
have been appropriate?"

But we unfortunately noted

that Domestic Intelligence in Hesse

and the Ministry of the Interior

blocked all access to further inquiries.

We couldn't get to the bottom
of the truth in Kassel.

That bothered us the whole time.

We discussed it time and time again
in every major meeting.

But our hands were effectively tied

by the decision
from the Hesse Ministry of the Interior.

like the kind you would expect
from public authorities

who are responsible
for security in our country.

Of course, we continued our investigations
concerning the entire murder series.

We were able to confirm
that, on two occasions at least,

intelligence agent Temme had
a clear and verifiable alibi.

If you think it has something
to do with organized crime,

then victims are not randomly
or situationally selected,

but targeted specifically as persons
who have to be removed.

-There's the doctor.
-What's going on here?

Then keeping the weapon makes sense

because the weapon is the message.

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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

INITIAL HYPOTHESIS

We already knew one thing
from the first murder.

It was possible
that two killers were involved

because two weapons were used.

or, as we phrased during
the presentation of our theory,

"They are brothers in spirit."

"What other kind of offense
could someone like this commit?"

We saw similarities
in this destructive rage.

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Now, we had developed
a new hypothesis internally,

and somewhat distracted, implying
some sort of psychological influence.

"What could happen in the worst case?"

In the worst case, there are new cases.

The weapon is changed.
The victims change.

20-30 years old, 175-185 cm tall,
dark blond hair, Saxon dialect

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But he definitely knew what was going on
and what he was getting into.

If I join a club where I have to submit

an essay on the topic of race...

and then say that I didn't know
what it was all about... I mean, really.

To infiltrate society,
to enforce racial segregation.

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We even contacted
the task force in Heilbronn,

which was dealing
with the Kiesewetter murder case,

and ended up comparing
all our information and our data.

the leads that we had developed
were insufficient.

We had nowhere to go.

However, as a police officer,

you are often confronted
with these feelings

because it is a fact

that not all crimes committed
can be solved.

Here is where the weapons

and the method of flight,
escaping with bicycles,

of course, caught their eye.

carry out such attacks
in the twilight hours

and also very often
in the second half of the week.

between the response vehicles
and the control center,

you could assume

that the two suspects knew

that the roads out of Eisenach
were being watched.

I also think they knew
that we were looking for a mobile home.

I was confronted
with a very complex situation.

they didn't necessarily have
to shoot themselves.

Perhaps there's a story
that we don't know about yet.

That was the starting point
for further investigations.

I was informed that one of the bodies
had been identified.

It was Uwe Mundlos.

"If there is any information
about these three,

He replied that he had no knowledge,

that he didn't know where they'd lived
or where their hideout had been.

Well, I know a few people that I would
also suspect of something like this,

but no one would ever think
that of them or suspect them.

I think that when the time is right,
there'll be enough.

-That would do something like the NSU?
-Yes.

No matter what happened,
it doesn't change anything about the fact

that we think of the time
back then positively,

that we are not ashamed of the things
we have done politically.

And, of course, that binds us together,

and I don't think
there are any backstabbers.

Why were these nine immigrants killed?

Why was Ms. Kiesewetter killed?

Why this place and not another?

Why did they stop killing immigrants

after the ninth murder?

Was it really only these three,
or were there others that supported them?

is the only explanation.

There may be others behind it,
or totally different contexts.

Due to the specific nature
of the right-wing scene

and its infiltration
by intelligence informers,

Either there were really only two
or three people around them who knew,

or the information was there,
but it wasn't passed on.

At least, not to the BAO Bosporus
Task Force.

-Do you think that's possible?
-I don't rule out anything.