1940-1945. The resistance in the dutch province of Limburg

The Terror of the NSU

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The perpetrators of the murders mentioned below have nothing to do with our province of Limburg. Nevertheless, we are mentioning them here to show how far supporters of National Socialism are still willing to go today. And how, in this case too, the ideological blindness of the poliOfficece has long prevented successful investigations.

The global rise of right-wing populism goes hand in hand with the resurgence of National Socialist ideas. There is a frighteningly large hard core of people who still openly worship National Socialism and sometimes even name themselves after it, as the NSU in Germany shows.
As with the Oktoberfest attack in Munich in 1980 [1.1], in which 13 people died and more than 200 were injured, the police persistently searched in the wrong direction in this series of murders too. They assumed a gang war, and the press consequently spoke of kebab murders.
They were committed by a right-wing extremist group that called itself the NSU (National Socialist Underground) and was responsible for a series of murders, robberies and bomb attacks:
Between 2000 and 2007, they murdered nine migrants and a policewoman, carried out 43 attempted murders, three bomb attacks (Nuremberg 1999, Cologne 2001 and 2004) and 15 robberies. The number of people involved in the attacks and their local, countrywide networking supporters is disputed. Their circle is estimated at 100 to 200 people, including V-Persons and functionaries of right-wing extremist parties. [1.2]
The murders of the migrants were motivated by their racism. The murder of policewoman Michèle Kiesewetter was probably an act of revenge.

The core group consisted of Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschäpe.
After a bank robbery, Böhnhardt and Mundlos committed suicide in Eisenach on Nov. 4, 2011. They had been exposed after being spotted by eyewitnesses when committing that crime. [2]
The identity of the perpetrators of the series of murders only became clear to the police after they had committed suicide and after their accomplice Beate Zschäpe had set fire to their apartment in Zwickau (photo right) and their mobile home, presumably to destroy evidence. She subsequently contacted the police with her lawyer. The police found the bodies of the Uwes in their burnt-out mobile home. In the days that followed, the media, public institutions and mosque communities received several confession videos. In July 2018, the Munich Higher Regional Court sentenced Zschäpe to life imprisonment for ten counts of murder.

The police and the Verfassungsschutz (Secret service for the protection of the constitution) did not cut a good figure in this series of crimes, and that is putting it mildly. The only thing that stood out quite quickly was that the same weapon was always used in the murders. From this, and the fact that they all looked like executions, it was probably rightly concluded that the killers wanted to leave a signature. But from the beginning, the search was only directed towards gang crime. The families of the victims were treated as perpetrators, not victims. The people responsible still refuse to come clean and have not yet considered an apology or more necessary.

One of the biggest inconsistencies in the case of the NSU complex is the 30-year embargo on the files of the Hessian Verfassungsschutz. [2]
Initially, it was even intended to keep the files secret for 120 years. [2]
There is an interesting movie about the reasons for this secretiveness: NSU – Nur ein Trio? (NSU – Only a trio?) [3]

On behalf of the parliament of the federal state of Thuringia, the memorial Schattenwurf in Erfurt commemorates the victims of the series of murders. [4]

Read also:
The Hanau murders, 2020
National Socialists

NSU Watch

1. Wikipedia
   1. Oktoberfest München, 1980 • Deutsch • English • Français • Italiano
   2. Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund, • Türkçe • Deutsch • English • Français • Español
2. trtdeutsch.com Vor 22 Jahren: NSU-Mord an Abdurrahim Özüdoğru
3. YouTube NSU – Nur ein Trio?
4. Monument Schattenwurf
   1. Einführung (introduction)
   2. deutschlandfunk.de Denkmal für NSU-Opfer in Erfurt

The fallen resistance people in Limburg The Terror of the NSU – 10 pers.
Kiesewetter, Michèle	∗ 1984-10-10 Oberweißbach † 2007-04-25 Heilbronn	- Women in the resistance - The Terror of the NSU - Michèle Kiesewetter was a policewoman who was murdered by the NSU. Her colleague Martin A., who was also shot, survived seriously injured. They were taking a break in their patrol car. It was … --
Kılıç, Habil	∗ 1963-00-00 Borçka † 2001-08-29 München	- The Terror of the NSU - In 1988, Habil Kılıç followed his wife to Munich, where she had already lived since she was a child. They became parents to a daughter. Together they opened a greengrocer’s … --
Kubaşık, Mehmet	∗ 1966-05-01 Hanobası † 2006-04-04 Dortmund	- The Terror of the NSU - Mehmet Kubaşık, owner of a kiosk, was murdered in Dortmund on April 4, 2006. [1] Unknown assailants shot him four times with the same CZ 83 pistol used in the other … --
Özüdoğru, Abdurrahim	∗ 1952-05-21 Yenişehir † 2001-06-13 Nürnberg	- The Terror of the NSU - Abdurrahim Özüdoğru was born on May 21, 1952 in Yenişehir in northwest Turkey and was an outstanding student. In 1972, the intelligent and promising young man received a … --
Şimşek, Enver	∗ 1961-12-04 Salur Köy (T) † 2000-09-09 Nürnberg	- The Terror of the NSU - Enver Şimşek had been living in Germany since 1985. He was married and had two children. On September 9, 2000, the flower wholesaler from Schlüchtern was working as a vacation replacement at … --
Taşköprü, Süleyman	∗ 1970-03-20 Afyonkarahisar † 2001-06-27 Hamburg-Bahrenfeld	- The Terror of the NSU - Süleyman Taşköprü came to Germany from Turkey as a child. He went to school in Hamburg. He worked in his father’s grocery store in the Bahrenfeld district. [1] Prior … --
Turgut, Mehmet	∗ 1979-05-02 Kayalık † 2004-02-25 Rostock	- The Terror of the NSU - Portrait drawing of Mehmet Turgut that was carried during a demonstration. (2018) [1] Mehmet Turgut was a seller in a kebab snack bar in Rostock, where he was murdered on February 25, … --
Voulgaridis /Βουλγαρίδης, Theodoros /Θεόδωρος Theo	∗ 1964-06-11 Triandafyllia † 2005-06-15 Schwanthalerhöhe, München	- The Terror of the NSU - Θεόδωρος Βουλγαρίδης, Theodoros Voulgaridis, was a co-owner of a key service, was murdered in Munich on June 15, 2005. [1] On 15 June 2005, in the key service shop he kept … --
Yaşar, İsmail	∗ 1955-00-00 Alanyurt † 2005-06-09 Nürnberg	- The Terror of the NSU - Photo: Forum Wermelskirchen [1] İsmail Yaşar, owner of a kebab snack bar, was murdered in Nuremberg on June 9, 2005. [2] Witnesses noticed two men with bicycles … --
Yozgat, Halit	∗ 1985-00-00 Kassel † 2006-04-06 Kassel	- The Terror of the NSU - Halit Yozgat, owner of an Internet café, was murdered on April 6, 2006 in Kassel - in the presence of a secret agent (Verfassungsschutz, Office for the Protection of the Constitution), … --