Police in Thuringia are currently investigating 19 letters containing racist content. According to reports, these letters arrived in May and were sent to various entities, including educational institutions, sports clubs, and municipal administrations. Christian Schaft, the parliamentary group leader for the Left Party in Thuringia, also received such a letter.
The Thuringian State Police Directorate confirmed that some of the correspondence contained the designation “NSU 2.0.” In all cases, preliminary investigations are being conducted under suspicion of incitement to hatred.
The letters falsely listed Thuringia’s Minister of Education, Christian Tischner (CDU), along with his ministry’s mailing address, as the sender. However, sources stated that he is not suspected of having written or dispatched the letters. The ministry confirmed to the newspaper that all known correspondence has been forwarded to the police, but declined to offer further comment due to the ongoing investigation.
The content of the letters primarily featured racist insults targeting Islam and included various calls for the murder of Muslims and Muslim women. Additionally, former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) was subjected to numerous insults. Conversely, the “German people” were depicted in a highly heroic manner, and Adolf Hitler was referred to as a patriot.
Christian Schaft revealed that the letter addressed to the Left faction in the Thuringian Parliament demanded the killing of people of Islamic faith and their supporters using “Zyklob B,” interpreting this as a direct threat of murder.
In response to inquiries, the CDU and SPD in the Thuringian Parliament stated that they were unaware of any such letters. BSW and AfD did not respond to a timely request.
The abbreviation “NSU 2.0” refers to a self-proclaimed group attempting to capitalize on the name of the National Socialist Underground (NSU). This group was responsible for murdering ten people across Germany between 2000 and 2007, nine of whom were migrants. The core members of the original NSU trio were originally from Thuringia. Between 2018 and 2021, a sequence of threatening letters bearing the “NSU 2.0” signature was reported, with a total of more than 150 such letters known.
