cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7891965

German military and police forces harbor extensive neo-Nazi networks that threaten public safety

Overlaps between neo-Nazis, Germany’s military, and police forces are not new. Scandals break disturbingly frequently, often to a chorus of promises from the relevant authorities that they will stamp the problem out. Looking at some of the most prominent scandals from recent decades, the same people who Germany’s politicians claim are meant to protect us look more like a threat themselves. Whether its army officers planning false-flag terrorist operations and training neo-Nazi networks, or Sicherheitbehörde with thorough ties to neo-Nazi networks and rendered incompetent by their own racism, Germany’s military and police forces have a violent recent history.

What we don’t know

News of another cache of ammunition or another group chat with racist memes still breaks regularly in Germany. The AfD has a growing relationship to Germany’s civil service, which includes the police, Bundeswehr, as well as teachers; they had 220 civil service members stand for them in elections between 2020 and 2025. For every leaked police group chat like this one uncovered in 2023, filled with memes of sexual violence, racist jokes, and started by a Polizeioberkommissar (police chief inspector), there are an unknown number which have not made the news. While we know about the 20,000 rounds of munition that were stolen from the Bundeswehr at the end of 2025, the Nordkreuz story highlights that small amounts of ammo slip into the hands of neo-Nazis on a regular basis. Each scandal that breaks is a sign of the still growing but largely still invisible ranks of neo-Nazis in positions of authority in Germany—until the next attack.