{"id":515,"date":"2014-03-20T23:09:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/?p=515"},"modified":"2014-03-23T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T18:11:59","slug":"20-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/2014\/03\/20\/20-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"20 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kapke reveals his true colors<\/h4>\n

The third day of questioning of Andr\u00e9 Kapke, co-founder of the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d and NSU-supporter from the early days, finally brought clarity concerning the ideological background of the THS, both before and after B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe went underground. The deadly hatred against non-Germans, the enthusiasm for the mass murder of the European Jews which became apparent in the activities of the THS was also shared by Zsch\u00e4pe and Wohlleben, as Kapke\u2019s answers in court show.<\/p>\n

Kapke\u2019s testimony also showed that Wohlleben has not changed into a \u201cmoderate nationalist\u201d, as his defence is trying to imply, but that he had been involved in National Socialist propaganda until shortly before his arrest.<\/p>\n

What finally made it impossible for Kapke to play down his ideology was a series of photos of the \u201cFest der V\u00f6lker\u201d (\u201cFestival of Peoples\u201d), a political festical with music bands, political talks and visitors from all over Europe which Kapke and Wohlleben had organized together over several years. He was unable to lie away pictures of the main stage with a banner showing Waffen SS men marching under the flags of several nations, even though he rambled on about \u201cpeace in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list of speakers and bands which appeared at the \u201cFest der V\u00f6lker\u201d between 2005 and 2009,<\/a> also speaks for itself: the main stage was filled with everybody who was somebody in the fascist and National Socialist movement in Europe, including a large number of \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d bands. The \u201cFest der V\u00f6lker\u201d \u2013 the title is based in a film of Hitler\u2019s favorite director Leni Riefenstahl on the 1936 Berlin Olympics \u2013 brings together those groups whose members are involved in spreading hatred against migrants, Jews and supposed or actual political opponents and often also in attacks and murders perpetrated against these groups. In addition, it should be noted that many of the known supporters of the NSU also come from a \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d-background.<\/p>\n

This trial day thus clearly refuted Kapke\u2019s attempts to depict the THS as a group of youths concerned about the environment and generally \u201copposed to the system\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kapke reveals his true colors The third day of questioning of Andr\u00e9 Kapke, co-founder of the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d and NSU-supporter from the early days, finally brought clarity concerning the ideological background of the THS, both before and after B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe went underground. The deadly hatred against non-Germans, the enthusiasm for the mass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}