How Did Neo-Nazi Serial Killers Escape German Police For Over 13 Years?

BAILEY T. STEEN | THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018

On Wednesday, Beate Zschäpe, one of the last remaining survivors of the German neo-nazi terrorist organisation, the National Socialist Underground (NSU), was just sentenced to life in prison by The Higher Regional Court of Munich for 10 murders, most of whom migrants, 14 bank robberies and two nail-bomb attacks. Following a five-year-long trial, with over 600 witnesses brought into question, the arrest of the infamous “Nazi bride” and her four associates cements the end to the NSU’s fascist invasion over German life.

According to a new report from The Guardian, the neo-Nazi crackdown started when there was a 2011 bank raid in the German town of Eisenach. On November 4th, two men, armed to the teeth with semi-automatic handguns, stormed the building in masks demanding bank tellers to empty the nearby safe. In and out with over €70,000 ($81,000 USD), the career fascists successfully pulled off their 14th bank robbery across 12 years.

Riding on borrowed time, however, the two men didn’t have long to celebrate.

Escaping the scene on bicycles, a witness contacted police after they noticed two men placing suspicious bags into a nearby white caravan. Authorities, now on the hunt for a…