The first witness today was another victim of the nail bomb attack of 9 June 20004 in the Keupstra\u00dfe in Cologne. He worked in the hairdresser\u2019s in front of which the bomb was placed. He suffered several injuries to his head, arm and leg as well as damage to his eardrums \u2013 he was spared from even more serious injuries by the fact that someone was standing between him and the bomb. He still suffers from psychological injuries, is still brought back to the explosion every time there is a loud noise like a door falling shut. Like many others, he related that German agencies had not done anything to help him cope with the consequences of the attack.<\/p>\n
The next witness was a good friend of Uwe Mundlos\u2018 from school who witnessed how Mundlos developed into an open Nazi. Former favorite music act Udo Lindenberg was replaced by the \u201cB\u00f6hsen Onkelz\u201d and other \u201cright rock\u201d, such as the \u201cKanak song\u201d spreading hatred against Turks (including lyrics such as \u201cPut them in the dungeon or put them in a concentration camp, send them into the desert, but finally get rid of them. Kill their children, rape their women, destroy their race, instill dread in them\u201d), Mundlos wore the usual bomber jacket and combat boots, later clothing reminiscent of an SS uniform. Beginning in the seventh or eighth grade, he began to talk positively about the Third Reich. In his room, he hung Nazi flags and played recordings of speeches by Hitler and Goebbels.<\/p>\n
According to the witness, Mundlos was, already in his youth, an agitator, \u201calmost immovable\u201d in his opinions, cold and without any mercy. Roughly in the tenth grade, he had programmed a computer game in which the player could \u201cshoot down\u201d Jews.<\/p>\n
As to Beate Zsch\u00e4pe, the witness stated that he had met her towards the end of his friendship with Mundlos. She had not left a political impression, but he remembered her as \u201cprimitive\u201d, stealing lots of stuff and forcibly taking cigarettes from Vietnamese salespeople. Members of the group had also been on the \u201chunt for left wingers\u201d.<\/p>\n
Uwe Mundlos had already known a lot about going underground, about dragnet investigations and the like. One of his favorite TV series had been \u201cPink Panther\u201d \u2013 which the NSU later used as a basis for the repugnant video with which it claimed responsibility for its crimes.
\nIt was apparent that the witness was honestly trying to remember as many details as possible and succeeded in putting himself back into the situations back then. He often related specific details and used those to characterize specific situations \u2013 something which makes for a particularly believable witness statement. His statement thus stands in marked contrast to those of Nazi witnesses who, in order to protect themselves and the accused, do not at all try to remember any salient details.<\/p>\n
The Zsch\u00e4pe defense tried above all to attack his statement that Zsch\u00e4pe had seemed primitive and had stolen a lot \u2013 hardly something which will be at the center of the court\u2019s judgment.
\nThe statement has above all shown that the ideology of Mundlos and his friends developed over a period of time. The dreams of annihilation already found early on in music and video games later and later in the self-made \u201cPogromly\u201d game became reality with the NSU murders. The fact that no one intervened in this development, even though it was obvious for parents, school officials and other agencies, raises further questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once more on the Keupstra\u00dfe, and on the ideology of Uwe Mundlos The first witness today was another victim of the nail bomb attack of 9 June 20004 in the Keupstra\u00dfe in Cologne. He worked in the hairdresser\u2019s in front of which the bomb was placed. He suffered several injuries to his head, arm and […]<\/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-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}