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Something Ventured, Nothing Gained
Police Used 'Metaphysicist' in Search for Neo-Nazi Murder Cell
By Veit Medick

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Beate Zschäpe (l), Uwe Böhnhardt, and Uwe Mundlos called themselves the National Socialist Underground (NSU).

Photo: Frank Doebert/Ostthüringer Zeitung

For years, German law enforcement officials searched in vain for the people behind a baffling series of murders ultimately attributed to the Zwickau neo-Nazi cell. At one point, police in Hamburg even turned to an Iranian 'metaphysicist' for help -- but it only added more confusion to their hunt.

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It was a trail of blood leading right across Germany: In a six-year period, the trio of right-wing extremists in a neo-Nazi cell calling itself the National Socialist Underground (NSU) killed nine small-business owners, including eight Turkish Germans and one person of Greek origin. For a long time, law enforcement officials couldn't establish a connection between the violent crimes, and their investigation was hindered by countless mistakes.


New investigative files are now in the hands of a committee of the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, investigating the NSU murders. The documents provide proof of just how desperately officials were trying to identify the murderers -- and of how police in the northern city-state of Hamburg turned to unconventional sources for assistance in their investigations.

For example, one Iranian "metaphysicist" reportedly offered to use a "medium" to help the police get in contact with Süleyman Tasköprü, a Turkish-German greengrocer who had been killed in Hamburg seven years earlier. Police higher-ups gave the green light for the special team investigating the murders to take the Iranian up on his offer. In April 2008, the Iranian shared with police the supposed results of his metaphysical "questioning" of the murder victim, which the police duly noted.

According to their records, the necromancer told the police that he had made contact with the murdered greengrocer for 10 to 15 minutes via a female medium while staying in a rental apartment in Hamburg. He said he was told the murder had been "unplanned," that an "injustice" was behind the deed and that drugs might have played a role. The victim had been "in contact with a gang," he reportedly continued, made up of up to eight "motorcyclists/bikers," one that might have been known to the police but had "no high degree of organization."

'It Could Involve a Turk'

The metaphysicist reportedly went on to say that someone with a headscarf stood out. A member of the gang was named "Armin" or "Amin," he continued, while another one was called Mustafa "Horgh." He reportedly said the deceased also provided a description of the murderer. "The perpetrator was supposedly of dark complexion (southerner), with brown eyes and black hair," the police documents say. "He is allegedly very young, and it could involve a Turk."

Today, officials in Hamburg know that what the Iranian told them bears little in common with the actual facts of the murder. But at the time, the information from the other world appears to have interested police officials there enough to run a cross-check with their in-house information system. The search turned up nothing.

"Unfortunately, I can't do anything with this," an information official wrote to a colleague in an email. "In particular, with regard to the motorcyclists, I unfortunately can't assist you in this matter any further."

Not as Harmless as Thought

The files also describe in detail how officials in Hamburg came into contact with the Iranian. They say that two officers assigned to the special investigative team met on January 18 with an Iranian management consultant in the lobby of Hamburg's InterContinental hotel. During the meeting, the woman apparently raved about the man's special abilities.

She described him as the "giant among metaphysicists" and referenced his "unofficial name recognition in Iran," according to the police notes. Her Iranian friend thought he might be able to help the police in Hamburg advance their investigation in a "decisive" way, she reportedly told them. They simply needed to apply to get him a visa.

The officials said they were interested in working together. But they also made it clear to the woman that they couldn't afford to provide her Iranian friend with financial compensation "in the form of ticket prices, overnight stays or payments for 'meetings.'"

Although she didn't view that as a problem, she reportedly asked whether her friend was still eligible to claim the €300,000 ($375,000) the police had offered as a reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. The officials promised her the money as long as the results of the man's "questioning" of the deceased led to the murderer's conviction.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- and, ultimately, we have nothing to lose," one of the officers involved in the talks wrote to his colleagues in an email. "If we have already gotten the green light to use hypnosis in interrogations, in my opinion, it doesn't do any harm for us to also try this, especially if it doesn't cost us anything and we only have to get involved in the visa matter."


In hindsight, the interaction with the Iranian offered no positive results. In fact, news of it just shines another spotlight on how hapless investigators were while pursuing these murder cases.

News of the Hamburg authorities' unorthodox approach has also angered some members of the Bundestag.

"The trail of right-wing extremism was not pursued in Hamburg, where they used information from necromancers, instead," says Sebastian Edathy, the parliamentarian who chairs the committee investigating the NSU. "Unbelievable!"

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German Jews Horrified by Britney Holocaust Role

The news that Britney Spears may hit the silver screen as the star of a Holocaust-era romantic tragedy has raised eyebrows in Germany. The plot calls for the pop-star to travel back in time to a concentration camp -- and the Central Council of Jews in Germany says the idea is "reprehensible."Spears, who is currently in the process of successfully resuscitating her recently languishing music career with her global "Circus" tour, is reportedly reviewing a script for a film tentatively titled "The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton." The flick would see her playing a character named Sophia LaMont who travels back in time to fall in love with a Jewish concentration camp prisoner named Eton. In a tricky critique of ongoing anti-Semitism, the script concludes with the lovebirds travelling back to the present day before being killed by Nazis.

Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has said she is horrified at the prospect of Britney making a Holocaust film. "In films that deal with the Holocaust, the script should be carefully chosen and the cast picked with care," Knobloch told the German tabloid Bild. "It is reprehensible to combine the issue of the Holocaust with Britney Spears in an attempt to secure financing for the film 'The Yellow Star of Sophia and Eton.' Ethical considerations should have priority."

Spears' music career got off to an impressive start and she quickly became one of the most successful acts of all time, having sold more than 87 million albums. But the 27-year-old's image has taken a hit in recent years with a seemingly unending series of scandals involving custody of her two boys, substance abuse problems and a number of salacious pictures circulating across the Internet.

Whether her presence on the cast of the new film would be enough to secure funding remains questionable. Her first film was universally panned and she won the Golden Raspberry award in 2002 for worst actress. The "Circus" tour is scheduled to make a stop in Berlin at the end of July.REUTERS

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Berlin Lets Cruise Shoot Movie Scenes in Defense Ministry

The German Defence Ministry has dropped its concerns about Tom Cruise being a member of Scientology and decided to allow him to shoot scenes inside the Defense Ministry for his film about the plot to assassinate Hitler.

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Physical similarity: Cruise (L) and German cavalry officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.

In an about-face, the German government has decided to allow Tom Cruise into the Berlin Defense Ministry to shoot key scenes for his movie about the 1944 plot to kill Hitler.

The ministry had initially refused to let Cruise, <NOBR>(more...)</NOBR>who plays would-be Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, to film at the site inside the ministry where Stauffenberg was shot. It had explained the ban by referring to Cruise's membership of Scientology, which the German government regards as a money-making cult rather than a church.

But that decision in June was controversial in Germany, where many have welcomed Hollywood's decision to make a film about a national hero who symbolized resistance to Hitler.

The defence ministry has now changed its mind. Spokesman Thomas Rabe told Bild newspaper: "There's a different assessment of the film project now. We will visit the scene with director Brian Singer to clarify what can and can't be done while preserving the special dignity of this location."

For example, government sources told the paper that it was unthinkable that Nazi swastika flags could be put up inside the ministry's "Bendlerblock" memorial where Stauffenberg planned the failed plot to blow up Hitler with a suitcase bomb, and where he was later executed.

Insiders told Bild that the German government had been persuaded that the film, whose working title has apparently been changed from "Valkyrie" to "Rubicon," wasn't being made by a sect but by a serious and professional company working with a Jewish director.

The ministry could not immediately be reached for comment. According to the screenplay of the film, currently shooting in and around Berlin, three night scenes and one day scene will be filmed in the Bendlerblock.

Cruise had aleady been allowed to film inside and in front of Berlin's Finance Ministry, the forbidding Nazi era building that housed the headquarters of the Luftwaffe air force in World War Two.

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