Group Otte
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Group Otte, also called the Brunswick Group or Braunschweiger Gruppe,[1] was the name given to a group of five German neo-Nazis, by law enforcement, after the group's leader Paul Otte carried out two bombings on courthouses in 1977: one in Flensburg, another in Hanover.[2] The group targeted courts to intimidate and disrupt lawsuits against neo-Nazi groups.
Trial[edit]
Paul Otte, Volker Heidel, Oliver Schreiber, Wolfgang Sachse and Hans-Dieter Lepizien were tried in Braunschweig, Germany in 1980.[3] In 1981 all five members received prison sentences between three and six years.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Koehler, Daniel (2016). Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century: The ‘National Socialist Underground’ and the History of Terror from the Far-Right in Germany. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
- ^ Dafinger, Johannes; Florin, Moritz (2022). A Transnational History of Right Wing Terrorism: Political Violence and the Far Right in Eastern and Western Europe since 1900. United Kingdom: Routledge. p. 166.
- ^ Waterloo Region Record, 01 Oct 1980, Wed ·Page 42
- ^ Kruglanski, Arie W.; Webber, David; Koehler, Daniel (2020). The Radical's Journey: How German Neo-Nazis Voyaged to the Edge and Back. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 25.
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