Olaf Klemke, defense counsel of accused Ralf Wohlleben in the NSU trial in Munich, today brought a motion which aims to \u201cprove\u201d the neo-Nazi claim of a danger of the \u201cdeath of the Volk\u201d. The motion, co-signed by co-counsel Nicole Schneiders and Wolfram Nahrath, claims that anybody could \u201cspeak of the \u2018danger of the death of the Volk\u2019\u201d since inter alia the \u201cmass immigration of non-Germans\u201d leads to \u201cthe German Volk in its current identity becoming a minority vis-\u00e0-vis non-Germans\u201d \u2013 the motion continues: \u201cif these developments continue and are not stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
The defense gilded these racist statements with pseudo-constitutional arguments very similar to those proposed by the Nazi party NPD \u2013 arguments which have been roundly refuted in the recent judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court on the NPD (see the [link http:\/\/www.bverfg.de\/e\/bs20170117_2bvb000113.html] judgment of 17 January 2017, para. 690 et seq. \u2013 note: an English language press release by the court is available here<\/a> [link: http:\/\/www.bverfg.de\/SharedDocs\/Pressemitteilungen\/EN\/2017\/bvg17-004.html]. As stated by the Constitutional Court, the logical conclusion of the NPD\u2019s ideology \u2013 as presented here by its former functionary Wohlleben and his defense attorneys \u2013 is \u201cthe racist exclusion of all ethnically non-German persons\u201d (para. 653).<\/p>\n Many victims\u2019 counsel left the courtroom in protest against the racist statements by Klemke.<\/p>\n Counsel Dr. Mehmet Daimag\u00fcler immediately replied, stating that \u201eif there were any remaining doubts concerning Wohlleben\u2019s neo-fascist ideology, these doubts have now been removed.\u201c<\/p>\n Counsel Seda Ba\u015fay-Yildiz: \u201eThe logical conclusion of the view put forward in this motion is the forced expulsion of millions of persons \u2013 or their murder, as perpetrated by the NSU.\u201d<\/p>\n