— Large quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives along with pamphlets calling for warfare against democratic institutions and Jews have been found by West German authorities in recent crackdowns on neo-Nazi and rightwing terrorist groups, according to information made available by the security services here.
The material found indicated that these groups have been systematically acquiring weapons and other lethal materials to conduct campaigns of terror aimed at restoring what they term “Hitler’s legacy”, the authorities said. The discoveries stemmed in part from investigations into the explosions at the Munich Oktoberfest last October.
According to a report today in Welt Am Sonnatag, the cellar of one Robert Funk, 20, yielded grenades, 500 grams of explosives and a mine. In the flat of Michael Ruttor, 17, in Nuremberg, 10 detonators were found. Arms and ammunition were found in the homes of his friends, Hors Roehlich and Stefan Faber in Heidelberg.
A box containing 1500 rounds of ammunition was confiscated in the flat of Karl-Heinz Diss-berger, 26, of Dusseldorf and his parents’ home yielded thousands more bullets, a pistol, 30 grams of explosives and literature on the use of fire arms.
Bullets of various calibres, a number of fuses and 14 high explosive mines were found in the flat of Andreas Nunn, 19, in Wilhelmshaven, In Schleswig, police found Gunnar Pahl, 25, in pos-
session of rifles, handguns, and chemicals for the manufacture of explosives. In Seelze, Joerg Hauschaelter, 24, a member of an organization called “Wehrsportgruppe Germania, ” was found in possession of 50 carbines, 1000 bullets, several’ gas pistols and other equipment.
Along with the weapons and ammunition seized in the various raids, security services discovered large quantities of printed matter containing instruction for guerrilla warfare against the West German political system. The literature termed it a “terror system led and coordinated by Jews.” It urged continuous warfare against the system “until Germany is cleared of Judaism.”
Police said some of the pamphlets indicated close contacts between the neo-Nazis in West Germany and similar organizations in North America and France and with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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