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Germany’s White Supremacist Problem—and What It Means for the United States

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German special forces exit a helicopter during training in June 2017. In 2020, the German Defense Ministry dissolved a unit of the special forces due to extremist incidents. Photo credit: Tim Rademacher via Wikimedia; CC BY-SA 4.0

Editor’s Note: As the United States wrestles with the threat of white supremacist violence, observers often look to Germany for lessons on how to deal with a racist past. The University of Nottingham’s Anna Meier argues that this is a mistake. She finds that German officials often minimize the extent of the problem and, as a result, ignore the deeper structural reforms needed to reduce racism.

Daniel Byman

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“I cannot see any structural problem,” Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer insisted, following a 2020 report finding more than 370 suspected cases of right-wing extremism in German police and security agencies. The sam

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