21.11.2011, 15:36
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Blind to Extremism: How Germany Overlooked the Threat from the Right
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. By SPIEGEL Staff
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21.11.2011, 16:26
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Join Date: 21.11.2011
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I don't think "monopoly on violence" is a good translation of Gewaltmonopol here. I think something like "the state's monopoly on the use of force" would be clearer and more accurate in this case.
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22.11.2011, 08:59
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Join Date: 18.11.2011
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Same old reasons
Why has German society been slow to realise the threat of right wing extremists? I believe it's because of the same reasons it was slow to awaken to the threat of Hitler's rise to power. It's a combination of a determined political force with a simple philosophy based on violence and hatred of minorities combined with weak laws, conflicting local and national political interests and law enforcement incompetence. But above all it is an 'ostrich' mentality of Germans that things will be alright if they are ignored; that things are not happening if they don't know about them, and that their society could handle them if they happened.
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