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What U.S. can learn from Germany’s response to far-right infiltration of its military | Trudy Rubin

As the Biden team confronts extremism in security forces and police after the Capitol riot, they should check out German methods of combatting right-wing extremists.

Supporters of the far-right Third Way (Der Dritte Weg) neo-Nazi political party march on the 30th anniversary of German reunification in Berlin's Hohenschoenhausen district on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Several radical groups, including the Third Way as well as coronavirus skeptics preaching the overthrow of the German government, are taking to the streets in Berlin. The Third Way has been active since 2013 and is an offshoot of the mostly defunct far-right NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany).
Supporters of the far-right Third Way (Der Dritte Weg) neo-Nazi political party march on the 30th anniversary of German reunification in Berlin's Hohenschoenhausen district on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. Several radical groups, including the Third Way as well as coronavirus skeptics preaching the overthrow of the German government, are taking to the streets in Berlin. The Third Way has been active since 2013 and is an offshoot of the mostly defunct far-right NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany).Read moreOmer Messinger / MCT
    by Trudy Rubin | Columnist
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