Beate Zsch\u00e4pe was able to participate in the trial again, so it was continued today. However, upon being asked by the presiding judge whether Zsch\u00e4pe had been able to follow the testimony last Tuesday, her defence told the court that she had not. Apparently they are unable to safeguard her rights without prompting by the court. The witness will now have to appear again \u2013 a result which the Zsch\u00e4pe defense, which always insists on a speedy trial, could have avoided with a simple notice to the court. Presiding judge G\u00f6tzl was rather irritated. In preparation for another day of Zsch\u00e4pe being ill, he had already pushed the testimony of secret service officer Meyer-Plath to a later date.<\/p>\n
Only witness today was the younger brother of Andr\u00e9 Kapke, formerly active in the Jena Nazi scene. He stated that he had left the scene in the early 2000s. He did leave the impression of actually trying to relate what he knew of the scene in the 1990s \u2013 a welcome change to many other (former) Nazi witnesses. He did, inter alia, provide a detailed description of the scene\u2019s ideology, in particular the absolute racism and anti-Semitism, which he had shared at the time. However, he did seem to downplay the violence inherent in the scene.<\/p>\n
His leaving the scene, he related, had been started when he gained contact to the fraternity \u201cJenensia\u201d in Jena \u2013 the fraternity which had dispelled eleven members in 1999 for inviting extreme right wing speakers and contacts to the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d. Those eleven went on to form the fraternity \u201cNormannia\u201d which even conducted some events at the Nazi \u201cbrown house\u201d.<\/p>\n
The witness was active in the group surrounding the core members of the \u201eKameradschaft Jena\u201d, but was also known in larger circles as part of the singer\/songwriter-duo \u201cEichenlaub\u201d (\u201cOak Leaf\u201d). \u201cEichenlaub\u201d had written a song for Zsch\u00e4pe, B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos after they had gone underground \u2013 one more sign for their significance for the scene.<\/p>\n
He discussed several interviews in scene publications which had been organized for him by Holger Gerlach and Ralf Wohlleben. He also related another interesting fact concerning Gerlach: in 1999, \u201cEichenlaub\u201d had played at a \u201cBlood & Honour\u201d concert in Hildesheim, near Germany. Today Kapke related that their appearance had been organized by Gerlach, who had moved to Hannover. Apparently Gerlach had a good connection to the organizers from \u201cBlood & Honour\u201d.
\nAccording to him, Ralf Wohlleben was rather important for the scene in Jena, played a leading role. However, it was hard to know his ideology as he had led a rather low-key \u201ccitizen\u2019s lifestyle\u201d. Carsten Schultze, too, had gained some influence in the scene over time, his word had some weight.<\/p>\n
There was a somewhat strange scene when accused Carsen Schultze himself asked the witness some questions concerning their first meeting \u2013 in the bus on the way to a Nazi march in Munich. Schultze apparently tried to show that at that time (when he just entered the scene) he had not yet played an important role. However, the witness did not remember any of the details Schultze wanted to hear.<\/p>\n
Victims\u2018 counsel moved that another witness, an early member of the \u201eKameradschaft Jena\u201c whoch had left the group after about 2 months, also be summoned as a witness. He too should be able to give details on the group\u2019s ideology and show once more that the core members were hardcore militant Nazis already at that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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