Far-Right Extremism Found in Less Than One Percent of German Security Forces: Report

Far-Right Extremism Found in Less Than One Percent of German Security Forces: Report
Thomas Haldenwang, president of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (left) and German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (right) address a news conference on extremism in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 6, 2020. Wolfgang Kumm/Pool via Reuters
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BERLIN—Less than one percent of Germany’s police forces, security agencies, and military personnel espouse far-right worldviews and sympathies, a report by the domestic intelligence agency published on Tuesday shows.

The report, part of a wider inquiry into far-right extremism in the civil service, seeks to dispel concerns that authorities have turned a blind eye to potentially violent nationalists gaining footholds in the uniformed services.