The nebulous Nazi connection lives on or so it would seem.
Even this Guardian article openly admits the connections between the American
formed post-war German intelligence services and ex-Nazis. The question is, as
Neo-Nazi groups have acted and continue to act (often with impunity) are they
being facilitated by the state intelligence apparatus? It would seem so.
But why? Is this explained by crypto-Nazi sympathies within
the German Establishment? Clearly then and now the US intelligence services all
but dominate their German allies and with modern surveillance dragnets it is
almost inconceivable that US signals intelligence is not able to aid German
agencies in apprehending these figures. If it's a rogue element within the
German services, the tools are there to stop them and yet it's not happening.
In fact it would seem they're being protected.
During the Cold War the United States eagerly employed these elements,
often actual Nazis (as opposed to Neo-Nazis) to serve its purposes in the
struggle against the Eastern Bloc. The various Neo-Nazi movements have had an
ambivalent and often bitter relationship with the West and yet clearly the West
German (and now German) intelligence services were and perhaps are helping
them. Was this under the nose of the Americans or (in some cases) at their
behest?
Why would the United States facilitate the Far Right in
Germany? For the same reasons they have done so elsewhere in Europe. It's the
strategy of tension, the fueling of social and political strife to drive the
politics and manipulate both the democratic impulse and the process.
Despite the rather suggestive evidence it could still be
maintained that it's simply Nazi sympathisers within the German apparatus that
are allowing this xenophobic violence to continue and this is being done
outside the purview of the United States. But it doesn't seem likely to me.
Precedent I think should be our guide or at least the default presumption.
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