Barbara Manthe is a Principal Investigator at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf; her research project, “Right-wing Terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-1990.” She is an expert on postwar radical right terrorism since 1945. Manthe has conducted research into different specialist areas, including the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on the National Socialist Underground’s (NSU) crimes.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGermany’s terrorist attack: migrant communities have lost trust
The central question that politics, security authorities and society are still failing to answer: who will protect...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGermany: the role of women in radical right terrorism
Women must not be underestimated in their function as active participants in radical right terrorist groups.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe 1980 Oktoberfest bombing – a case with many question marks
The irregularities in the case point to the fact that the reappraisal of the radical right’s history in post WW-II...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Terror from the far right in the Weimar Republic
The approval and performance of politically-motivated violence has been a core element of fascist or antisemitic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Scenes of ‘civil war’? Radical right narratives on Chemnitz
The Chemnitz case shows a Saxon city where the radical right has tried to establish itself for years, with some very...