Clik here to view.
Spitzel bespitzelt Spitzel
“Spy spies on spy.” A quote from left-wing Thuringian state parliamentarian Martina Renner (Die Linken) and the subheadline to this Spiegel-Online article reporting that the Thuringian state...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ägide
Aegis. The Erfurt committee investigating the cell of neonazi serial murderers who only got caught posthumously (after they decided to commit suicide while setting their apartment on fire) has invited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bundeskriminalamt, BKA
Federal-level German police. Like the Verfassungsschutz, the German police are managed in state and federal offices with some degree of mutual autonomy. Thirteen suspects are under investigation by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Untersuchungsausschuss
“Investigating committee.” There appear to be two parliamentary committees investigating the organizational failures in Germany’s federal, state and local law-enforcement, and domestic, foreign and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sonderermittler
“Special investigator.” In February 2012 Berlin state senator and state interior minister Frank Henkel (CDU) learned important Berlin police information about the neonazi terrorist cell but never...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rechtsextremismus-Datei
The federal government of Germany has created a central file to collect data on right-wing extremists who are willing to use violence. The file is not intended to collect data on nonviolent people with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bouffier
The slightly creepy governor of Hesse, which includes the financial metropole Frankfurt am Main. The guy he replaced, Roland Koch, was also slightly creepy. Bouffier it turns out was Hesse’s interior...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Halitplatz
“Halit Square,” in Kassel, Germany. Named after a man allegedly killed by the neonazi serial-killer cell. Halit’s parents were at the dedication ceremony and unveiled a memorial explaining what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2649 Belege
“2,649 pieces of evidence” which have been collected in a report that will be used in preliminary discussions of another runup to an attempt at banning the far-right German political party NDP...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Saustall
“Sow sty.” In German, the sow is a more intensive metaphor for the pig. Pigs are pigs, but the sow is the SOW. After a six-month investigation of the Saxony state Verfassungsschutz office (Saxon LfV),...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Windhund-Verfahren
“Greyhound method” for first-come-first-serve allocation of press seats in the small state courtroom where the last surviving member of the neonazi serial-killing terrorist cell will go on trial this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Liebe deinen Nächsten. Für mich sind das unsere Österreicher.”
“Love your neighbor as yourself. For me, that means our Austrians.” Campaign slogan of the racist populist ex-Jörg-Haider* F.P.Ö. party, which came in third in Austria’s 29 Sep 2013 parliamentary...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Schlagende Verbindung
The German university fraternities that deliberately cut each other in the face while swordfighting, as a result of which any company manager with a facial scar is thought to have a powerful right-wing...
View Article
