Today the questioning of Mandy Struck, an early supporter from Chemnitz, was continued. (We reported on her earlier testimony in our posts of 26 February<\/a> and 27 February 2014<\/a>). Struck again tried to downplay the Nazi ideology and violence of the scene and to represent herself as unimportant. However, persistent questioning at least revealed a few details. A positive development is that the presiding judge told the witness not to evade the questions of victims\u2019 counsel and also asked several critical questions concerning \u201cBlood and Honour.\u201d<\/p>\n At the end of Struck\u2019s questioning, victim\u2019s counsel Hoffmann made a statement regarding her testimomy, which we reprint below:<\/p>\n Witness Mandy Struck, whose questioning was continued today, was an integral part of the Nazi scenes both locally in Chemnitz and in Germany. She was a member of the \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d network in Chemnitz and\/or of the \u201cNo. 88s\u201d in Chemnitzer \u2013 we know from other witnesses that both groups were practically identical.<\/p>\n Struck had an influence over the scene due to her work in the \u201cOrganization for the aid of national prisoners\u201d [an organization devoted to supporting Nazis in prison, which was dissolved by the German government in 2011] and her involvement in the \u201cFranconia Action Front\u201d from Nuremberg. She was thus able, among other things, to have an article calling on the Nazi scene to move beyond internal differences, published, under her own name and together with an imprisonment \u201ccomrade\u201d, in the zine \u201cLandser\u201d which was read all over Germany. She initiated the building of a woman\u2019s group and the posting of posters.<\/p>\n In her testimony, she tried to downplay her importance, the quality of her contacts and her involvement in various Nazi networks. To give only one example, she claimed that the license plate of her car \u2013 ending in \u201cBH 88\u201d \u2013 stood for \u201cBike holder Honda Hornet\u201d, despite it being obvious that these numbers and letters are used in the Nazi scene to signify \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d and \u201cHeil Hitler.\u201d She did, however, have to admit how she came upon her nickname \u201cWhite Power Mandy\u201d \u2013 she had always carried a \u201cWhite Power\u201d pin on her jacket, thus signifying her commitment towards an extremely militant form of racism<\/p>\n As part and on behalf of the \u201eBlood and Honour\u201c group in Chemnitz, Struck organized the housing for Zsch\u00e4pe, B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos shortly after they had gone underground. As she stated herself, all known persons supporting \u201cthe Three\u201d in going underground in Chemnitz were part of \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d. This shows that this support was provided by an existing structure, that it was not, as claimed in the indictment, composed of individual acts of support by various persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going underground with \u201eBlood and Honour\u201c, Part II Today the questioning of Mandy Struck, an early supporter from Chemnitz, was continued. (We reported on her earlier testimony in our posts of 26 February and 27 February 2014). Struck again tried to downplay the Nazi ideology and violence of the scene and to represent herself as […]<\/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-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}