The 2011 discovery of neo-Nazi killers aired biases in German policing

How did Germany's NSU get away with neo-Nazi terror so long?

Halit Yozgat was killed at point-blank range on April 6, 2006, in Kassel, in the German state of Hesse . Before him, eight other men with immigrant backgrounds had also been shot point-blank since September 2000 . The 10th and final person killed by the group Germany would come to know as the National Socialist Underground did not fit this pattern: She was a woman. Police officer Michèle Kiesewetter was killed by the NSU on April 25, 2007, in Heilbronn, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg .

Four and a half years after Kiesewetter's death, the identities of the people behind the murders came to light. On November 4, 2011, Beate Zschäpe, who is now imprisoned with little likelihood of release before 2035, revealed the existence of the NSU . The group also included Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, who were found dead in a burned-out RV on the same day.

The two men are believed to have died in a murder-suicided following a failed bank robbery in the eastern German city of Eisenach, under circumstances that have never been fully clarified. In a macabre confession video that Zschäpe sent to the media, they boasted that they had shot and killed nine men on racist grounds.

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