| UNSPECIFIED, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 15: (EDITORS NOTE: Best quality available. ) This image shows a computer screenshot of a DVD reportedly produced by neo-Nazis Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boenhardt to document a series of murders they committed over several years on November 15, 2011 in Germany. The men were reportedly members of a right-wing terrorist group called the National Socialist Underground (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund, or NSU). The bodies of Boehnhardt and Mundlos were found in a burnt-out caravan last week in Eisenach after the men reportedly robbed a bank, were pursued by police and committed suicide. Beate Zschaepe, who lived with the two men in an apartment in Zwickau, turned herself in after detonating an explosive in the Zwickau apartment following the double suicide. Police investigators claim they have found a treasure trove of evidence, including the DVD, in the remains of the apartment that indicate the men murdered policewoman Michele Kiesewetter in Heilbronn 2007 as well as ten mostly Turkish small-business owners across Germany between 2000 and 2006. The evidence shows the men were also responsible for a bombing in an immigrant-heavy neighborhood in Cologne in 2004 that injured 22 people. Mundlos, Boenhardt and Zschaepe were all active members of a neo-Nazi group called the 'Thueringer Heimatschutz' until they disappeared by changing their identities in 1998 following a police raid that uncovered explosives and pipe bombs. Lawmakers have announced plans to launch hearings into the case in order to uncover why law enforcement officers failed to connect the crimes earlier and why the three accused were released after the raid in 1998. Police have arrested another NSU suspect since the suicides and are reportedly considering charges against another possible accomplice. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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