Today the court heard two witnesses from Chemnitz. Both were summoned based on a motion by the Wohlleben defense which aims at shifting the responsibility for the support given to the NSU away from Wohlleben and laying it solely at the feet of \u201cBlood & Honour\u201d Saxony.
\nAs was the case with earlier witnesses, this plan did not come to fruition today. At the same time, both witnesses also tried very hard not to give any other relevant details \u2013 like many witnesses from the Nazi scene before them, they confirmed what was already proven and otherwise either told stories or claimed not to remember anything.<\/p>\n
The first witness was Gunter Fiedler, one of the \u201c88\u201d Skinheads from Chemnitz. He confirmed that, after Zsch\u00e4pe, B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos had gone underground, he and his brother had provided an apartment for them. Thomas Starke had asked them and told them that the Three were hiding from the police. The Fiedler brothers asked Mandy Struck, who referred them to her boyfriend Max-Florian B., who in fact took them in.<\/p>\n
The witness also confirmed \u2013 contrary to his interview with the police \u2013 that he had lent B\u00f6hnhardt his ID card so that B\u00f6hnhardt could apply for (and in fact receive) a passport in Fiedler\u2019s name. However, he claimed to have taken this passport back after a while and to have destroyed it \u2013 a rather unbelievable claim. He also claimed not to have had further contact with the Three and not to know anything much about them.<\/p>\n
His statement was unbelievable already taken on its own, even more so given several contradictions to his police interview. What\u2019s more, he was unable to state any kind of motive for his support. Finally, the witness was unable to explain a note found in the NSU apartment containing biographical details of the entire Fiedler family, which shows that B\u00f6hnhardt was still using Fiedler\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
It was apparent that the witness, an active member of the Nazi scene in Chemnitz, was willing without any further ado to provide an apartment and personal documents to \u201ccomrades\u201d on the run from the police. Apparently the scene had no problem with participating in criminal activities.<\/p>\n
The second witness, J\u00f6rg Winter, was a member of \u201cBlood & Honour\u201d Saxony and had, already in the mid-1990s, provided Zsch\u00e4pe, B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos, at the time were still active in Jena, with 2 kg of TNT. This transaction too was brokered by Thomas Starke. The witness confirmed having delivered the explosives, but told a tall tale of having been given the TNT for safe-keeping by an acquaintance who died shortly thereafter. Later, Starke asked him, apparently out of the blue, and \u201cas luck would have it\u201d, he was able to give those explosives to him. Of course, he had not had any clue that these explosives were meant for somebody else, he thought Starke simply wanted to \u201cexperiment\u201d a bit.<\/p>\n
Besides this unbelievable story, the witness provided some interesting tidbits concerning the structure of \u201cB&H\u201d Saxony and their closeness to the Hammerskins in Saxony. He also confirmed that Andr\u00e9 Eminger was close to the \u201cB&H\u201d scene, in fact wanted to become a member. When \u201cB&H\u201d was banned and dissolved, he instead formed the \u201cWhite Brotherhood Iron Mountains\u201d, whose ideology was closely related to that of the Hammerskins. Winter\u2019s statement is therefore another clue that Eminger is the link who ensured the further support to the NSU after \u201cB&H\u201d was banned and the earlier supporters were unable to continue their support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Witnesses from Chemnitz: Some details, a lot of fables \u2013 and still no exculpatory evidence for Wohlleben Today the court heard two witnesses from Chemnitz. Both were summoned based on a motion by the Wohlleben defense which aims at shifting the responsibility for the support given to the NSU away from Wohlleben and laying it […]<\/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-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}