Attack on the Wehrmacht exhibition
On March 9, 1999, there was a bomb attack on the War of Extermination Exhibition . Crimes committed by the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1944 . In the early morning hours, a bomb exploded at the VHS center in Saarbrücken . The investigators assume a right-wing terrorist act . To date, the perpetrators of the attack have not been identified. Since 2011, investigators have seen clear indications that the neo-Nazi terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) carried out the attack.
background
The Wehrmacht exhibition of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research had already been shown in 30 cities before the show in Saarbrücken. 700,000 people had seen the exhibition by then. Right-wing circles strongly opposed the show at all exhibition locations, and in Saarbrücken, too, there were serious clashes between opponents of the exhibition from the right-wing camp and left-wing demonstrators.
The CDU Saarbrücken had placed an advertisement in which it said: “We do not let these exhibition organizers and their auxiliaries defame our fathers as criminals and murderers without being contradicted - and with them the many dead who can no longer defend themselves.” The Prime Minister at the time des Saarland Reinhard Klektiven (SPD) opened the exhibition.
Sequence of events
At 4:40 a.m., an explosive device exploded on the back of the building complex of the Saarbrücken adult education center. The VHS building and the Meistermann windows in the neighboring castle church were damaged; there was property damage of several hundred thousand euros. Some of the exhibits were slightly damaged by flying splinters.
Investigation after the fact
After the attack, the LKA Saarland quickly announced that it had been professionally carried out. The investigation was discontinued without result.
Investigations since 2011
To date, the perpetrators of the attack have not been identified. In 2011, the investigators reopened the case after it became clear that a right-wing terrorist cell had carried out murders in Germany for years. The National Socialist Underground (NSU) has been linked to several unexplained violent crimes. According to Tagesspiegel, investigators wanted to question a journalist who claims to have observed two men and a woman who appeared suspicious to him after the explosion. According to the witness, one of the three people said, "It was us". The three people could have been members of the right- wing terrorist group NSU who went into hiding in 1998.
The Saarland public prosecutor also investigated a series of ten arson attacks in Völklingen in Saarland, which may be related to the NSU. The attacks were aimed primarily at buildings belonging to immigrants of Turkish origin, but also Arabs and black Africans. 20 people were injured in the fires. According to media reports, a Turkish mosque in Völklingen received the twelfth DVD that Beate Zschäpe sent on November 4, 2011.
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- ↑ Explosives attack on the Wehrmacht exhibition: - WELT. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
- ^ Jewish News: The Wehrmacht Exhibition: Bomb Attack in Saarbrücken. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
- ^ NDR: How an exhibition divided Germans. Retrieved July 26, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Frank Jansen : Did NSU commit attack on Wehrmacht exhibition? ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed July 26, 2017]).
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Bomb attack on Wehrmacht exhibition: Terror trail in the Saarland? In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on July 26, 2017]).