Photo Gallery The Far-Right Threat
Over 140 people have died as a result of far-right violence in Germany since reunification in 1990. But the German public has been largely blind to the threat from the right. The revelations about the Zwickau terror cell may now act as a wake-up call. Here, neo-Nazis during a May Day demonstration in Berlin in 2004.
In 1993, five Turkish women and girls died in an arson attack in Solingen. This photo shows their coffins at a service.
In Magdeburg in 1997, a 17-year-old punk called Frank Böttcher was murdered by a skinhead. This photo shows a demonstration on the one-year anniversary of his death.
The Algerian asylum-seeker Farid Guendoul died in Guben in an accident in 1999 while running away from a group of right-wing extremists.
In 2000, the right-wing extremist Michael Berger shot three police officers and then killed himsef. These weapons were found in his home.
Police officer Michele Kiesewetter was murdered in Heilbronn in 2007. The Zwickau neo-Nazi trio are believed to be responsible for her death.
