National Socialist Combat Group Greater Germany

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The National Socialist Combat Group Greater Germany (NSKG) was a neo-Nazi German organization. It was founded in April 1972 by the forest worker Manfred Knauber and comprised over 25 members from Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia , including some NCOs from the Bundeswehr .

The NSKG published the organ The National Socialist - a campaign pamphlet for the liberation of Germany from bondage and committed itself to the statutes and program of the NSDAP . Some of the members came from the NPD . The aim was armed struggle ; according to its own statement, the NSKG had contacts with the PLO . In addition, she maintained connections to the Social Revolutionary National Combat Group of Germany (SNKD) founded by Karl Jochheim in 1968 , which was also militant and conspiratorial and had handguns, handguns, radios and forged ID cards.

On October 11, 1972, the group was removed by the police . In doing so, u. a. One automatic cannon , three machine guns , five submachine guns , various rifles, explosives , bazooka grenades and hand grenades as well as documents such as operation plans and instructions for taking hostages were found.

In the subsequent criminal trial of six members were convicted of membership in a criminal organization and the violation of the War Weapons Control Act to imprisonment convicted.

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