"If You Want To Fight Fascism, You Cannot Rely On The State"

This week on the show, we share an interview with Sonja, an antifascist activist and researcher based in the state of Hessen, Germany, and involved in the network known as NSU-Watch. For the hour, we talk about the case of the National Socialist Underground terror group which killed 9 immigrants of Turkish, Greek and Kurdish immigrants between 2000 and 2006 and were only discovered in 2011. Sonja tells about organizing with those who lost their loved ones in the attacks, the uncovering of government knowledge of the networks that produced the NSU and the milieu and international nazi scene it arose from, autonomous antifascist research.

We then speak about the ongoing case of Franco Albrecht, the former German military officer who is presumed to have been planning a false flag attack to draw ire to immigrant communities in Germany, as well as the network of military and police involved in the coordinated “Day X” plot to overthrow the German state. In some ways this interview was meant as a corrective to the New York Times podcast entitled Day X, one which de-centers state agency, opacity and collusion in the plot.

Many thanks to the comrade at Anarchistisches Radio Berlin for support in researching this interview!

You can find more about NSU-Watch’s work at NSU-Watch.info/en/ or follow them on Twitter (@NSUWatch) and Instagram (@NSUWatch). More links in our show notes

Links:

• Forensic Architecture: the murder of Halit Yozgat

• Short film about the NSU trial from NSU Watch

• exif recherche (one of the best antifascist research collectives in germany, deeply in need of help for translating the last texts about the Hammerskin Nation)

• Apabiz (longstanding, autonomous anti-fascist research group in Berlin. Site in German)

• A.I.D.A. Archive (longstanding, autonomous anti-fascist research in Munich. Site in German)

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Featured Tracks:

• Bist Du Wach? (Solisong für Hanau) by Azzi Memo
• Angst frisst Seele auf  by Feine Sahne Fischfilet (a song about a friend receiving deaththreads and how to deal with it)
• Avanti populo by Microphone Mafia and Esther Bejerano