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Die NSU-Morde: ein neuer Typ rechtsextremistischer Gewalt
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Abstract "Right-wing extremist violent offences going as far as to murder are nothing new in Germany. Ideologically legitimated and habitually rooted, there is a close connection of right-wing extremism and violence. Nevertheless, the series of murders by the "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (National So... view more
"Right-wing extremist violent offences going as far as to murder are nothing new in Germany. Ideologically legitimated and habitually rooted, there is a close connection of right-wing extremism and violence. Nevertheless, the series of murders by the "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (National Socialist Underground, NSU) in our country means a new quality of right-wing extremist violence because in a previously unprecedented way it combines the characteristics of different kinds of violence. On the one hand, this series of assassinations by an underground movement was systematically planned and carried out, on the other hand this uncommunicated violence aims at the "migrant common man" without any symbolic value." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
radicalism; right-wing radicalism; Federal Republic of Germany; underground; propensity to violence; political criminality; neo-Nazism; offender; homicide; violence; political group; typology; terrorism; ideology
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
NSU; Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
Document language
German
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 211-236
Journal
Totalitarismus und Demokratie, 10 (2013) 2
ISSN
1612-9008
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications