Hepp-Kexel-Group
The Hepp-Kexel-Group (German Hepp-Kexel-Gruppe) was a right-wing terroristic gang in West-Germany. The gang perpetrated bank robberies and attacks in the early 1980s; its members came from the main far-right terrorist gang of this time, the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann. The Hepp-Kexel group was until the self-release of the NSU as the most important right-wing terrorist group in the Federal Republic of Germany.
History
In 1982, the neo-Nazi gang robbed five banks in Germany to finance later actions and captured 630,000 D-Mark. Internally, the group called itself after their leaders Walther Kexel and Odfried Hepp. Hepp was a former member of the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann. According to Hepp, the group wanted to attract political attention with large terrostic attack, modeled on the IRA. Kexel and Hepp planned together with the right-wing terrorist Peter Naumann, to free the war criminal Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison. After a row in the group, this plan was abandoned.[1]
Instead, the Hepp-Kexel group published a paper titled Farewell to Hitlerism. They called for an "anti-imperialist liberation struggle" against the US and Israel. The group rented apartments and set up weapons depots. Following the call, three car bomb attacks on US military personnel followed in Frankfurt, Butzbach and Darmstadt.
All members, except for Odfried Hepp, were arrested in February 1983.[2] Three members surrender to the police in Frankfurt, Kexel and another member were arrested in the same month in England. Only Hepp, who had previously moved to West Berlin, and was working for the Stasi,[3] was able to escape the planned for February 19, 1983, arrest by the Berlin police by fleeing to East Berlin.[4] He was taken to Syria and given a new identity.[3]
See also
- Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund, a German neo-Nazi terrorist group
- Atomwaffen Division, an American neo-Nazi terrorist group
- National Action, a banned British neo-Nazi group
References
- ^ Johannes Radke, Toralf Staud (2019-06-19), "Rechter Terror: Rechtsextreme Gruppen laden Hoffmann immer noch zu Vortragsabenden ein", Die Zeit (in German), Hamburg, ISSN 0044-2070, retrieved 2019-06-19
- ^ "Rechtsterrorismus in der Bundesrepublik - Verdrängte Vergangenheit?" (in German).
- ^ a b Baldwin, Leigh; Williams, Sean (26 June 2022). "Follow the Leader". The Atavist Magazine.
- ^ "Du bist jetzt einer von uns". Der Spiegel (in German). 1991-11-18. Retrieved 2015-02-19. Ausgabe 47/1991 im Archiv
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- 1970 Munich bus attack
- German autumn
- 1982 Berlin restaurant bombing
- Bombing of French consulate in Berlin
- 1984 Duisburg arson attack
- 1985 Frankfurt airport bombing
- Rhein-Main Air Base bombing
- Berlin discotheque bombing
- 1991 American embassy sniper attack in Bonn
- Mykonos restaurant assassinations
- 1992 Mölln arson attack
- Weiterstadt prison bombing
- 1993 Solingen arson attack
- National Socialist Underground murders
- 2004 Cologne bombing
- 2011 Frankfurt airport shooting
- 2016 Hanover stabbing
- 2016 Würzburg train attack
- 2016 Ansbach bombing
- 2017 Hamburg knife attack
- Borussia Dortmund team bus bombing
- Bottrop and Essen car attack
- Halle synagogue shooting
- 2018 Cologne attack
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