Body Bags and Enemy Lists: How Far-Right Police Officers and Ex-Soldiers Planned for ‘Day X.’
A group of far-right preppers known as Nordkreuz shocked Germany.
I met some of them this year.
Here is what I learned:
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Germany recently woke up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces, the KSK. But as the case of Nordkreuz shows, the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is neither new nor confined to the military. 2/10

Far-right extremism penetrated multiple layers of German society in the years when the authorities underestimated the threat or were reluctant to countenance it fully. Now they are struggling to uproot it. 4/10

One central motivation of the extremists has seemed so fantastical that for a long time the authorities did not take it seriously, even as it gained broader currency in far-right circles: Neo-Nazi call it Day X. 5/10

“We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg,” one lawmaker and whistleblower in the northeastern state where Nordkreuz was founded told me. “These cells are everywhere. In the army, in the police, in reservist units.” 3/10