The first witness today was Andr\u00e9 K\u00f6., a former member of the \u201eWhite Brotherhood in the Iron Mountains\u201c (Wei\u00dfe Bruderschaft Erzgebirge, WBE) led by Andr\u00e9 and Maik Eminger. He claimed not to be right-wing anymore, while sporting a rather large \u201cBlut und Ehre\u201d (German for \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d)-tattoo on his shaved head. No big surprise that this witness, like many before him, claimed not to remember any details concerning the WBE, but rather tried to downplay his earlier statements to the police, claiming that he had not worded things \u201cas crassly\u201d when talking about violence against foreigners etc. What he did confirm was that Andr\u00e9 and Maik Eminger were founders and leading members of the WBE.<\/p>\n
He was followed by Stephan Lange, former leader of the Blood & Honour \u201cDivision\u201d Germany. He tried to present B&H as purely a \u201cmusic movement\u201d, even claimed that it had been founded solely to guard against intra-scene attacks by Hammerskins. He did not change his tune even when presiding judge G\u00f6tzl showed that he did not believe his strategy of trivialization, even explicitly discussed the consequences of perjury, even when several clearly political articles from the B&H magazine were read out. Later, he at least reported that there had been B&H members who proposed a strategy more in line with \u201cCombat 18\u201d, i.e. armed attacks against migrants, leftists etc. However, he claimed not to remember any details.<\/p>\n
The Wohlleben and Zsch\u00e4pe defenses once again followed their strategy of torpedoing the questioning by objecting to questions \u2013 once again largely without success. Interestingly, the Zsch\u00e4pe defense even claimed that all questions concerning \u201cB&H\u201d were without relevance to the proceedings \u2013 a claim met with an incredulous shake of the head not only on the court bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lies and Trivialization, Part 13 \u2013 Once more on the \u201eWhite Brotherhood in the Iron Mountains\u201c and on \u201eBlood & Honour\u201c The first witness today was Andr\u00e9 K\u00f6., a former member of the \u201eWhite Brotherhood in the Iron Mountains\u201c (Wei\u00dfe Bruderschaft Erzgebirge, WBE) led by Andr\u00e9 and Maik Eminger. He claimed not to be right-wing […]<\/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-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}