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Mit aller Härte. Wie Polizei und Staatsschutz Linksradikale jagen
MIT aller Härte bietet einen spannenden Einblick in zwei auf den ersten Blick verschiedene einerseits Polizei und Geheimdienste auf der Jagd nach Staatsfeinden, anderseits ein Biotop aus Kommunisten und Anarchisten, die von der Revolution träumen. Dabei sind beide Gruppen sich ähnlicher, als sie Ermittler und Linksradikale schotten sich ab, pflegen eine eigene Sprache; beide verfolgen ihre Ziele mit einem Furor, der ständig zwischen gnadenlosem Ernst und unfreiwilliger Komik mäandert. Frank Brunner lässt beide Welten wie in einem Krimi aufeinander prallen. Er beschönigt nichts und stellt trotzdem die richtigen Rechtfertigt der Zweck die Mittel oder muss das Ziel auch bei der Wahl der Mittel immer erkennbar bleiben?
257 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 26, 2017
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January 25, 2021
This is a journalist's account of the German police hunting the "militante gruppe" or "mg," a left-wing group active in the 2000s that practiced "propaganda of the deed." They would, for example, set a fire at a construction site for an exploitative supermarket chain and then publish a manifesto denouncing capitalism and imperialism.
The German police spent inconceivable resources hunting this group, which never hurt a single person and only unintentionally, in isolated cases, put individuals in any kind of potential danger. There was intense surveillance of the Berlin Left for many years, and thousands of police officers raided apartments, harassing a broad spectrum of people.
The very same police officers and prosecutors were responsible for the "National Socialist Underground," a Nazi group which murdered nine people and one police officer around the same time. In 2007, Germany's federal police received a recording exposing where these three Nazis werde hiding. They did not even bother to listen to the tape for two years — they were, as they explained later, too busy looking into left-wing property damage!
One person who was accused of being part of the "mg" was put in prison for a couple of years. He went on the found a "prisoners' union" which has been incredibly successful in drawing attention to exploitation in German prisons. This was a very exciting read that shows how the German state is "blind in its right eye," i.e. protects Nazis and persecutes the Left.
My favorite part of the book: a suspect who is unexpectedly released from pre-trial custody, and is kind of sad he can't finish reading Trotsky's Portrait of National Socialism. Trotsky's writing on German fascism is excellent, and one shouldn't wait to get arrested to read it :-)
The German police spent inconceivable resources hunting this group, which never hurt a single person and only unintentionally, in isolated cases, put individuals in any kind of potential danger. There was intense surveillance of the Berlin Left for many years, and thousands of police officers raided apartments, harassing a broad spectrum of people.
The very same police officers and prosecutors were responsible for the "National Socialist Underground," a Nazi group which murdered nine people and one police officer around the same time. In 2007, Germany's federal police received a recording exposing where these three Nazis werde hiding. They did not even bother to listen to the tape for two years — they were, as they explained later, too busy looking into left-wing property damage!
One person who was accused of being part of the "mg" was put in prison for a couple of years. He went on the found a "prisoners' union" which has been incredibly successful in drawing attention to exploitation in German prisons. This was a very exciting read that shows how the German state is "blind in its right eye," i.e. protects Nazis and persecutes the Left.
My favorite part of the book: a suspect who is unexpectedly released from pre-trial custody, and is kind of sad he can't finish reading Trotsky's Portrait of National Socialism. Trotsky's writing on German fascism is excellent, and one shouldn't wait to get arrested to read it :-)
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