Eight members of a group known as “Saxony Separatists” (“Saechsische Separatisten”, a name that
is a reference to the Schutzstaffel or SS, the Nazi state’s paramilitary wing) were arrested on 5
November during multiple raids in eastern Germany, near the German-Polish border. Authorities
report that the group, potentially consisting of several dozen members, aimed to establish an
independent neo-Nazi state in eastern Germany following what they viewed as the “inevitable”
collapse of the German state
Elements of the group’s ideology signal that it may espouse a form of far-right “accelerationism”, a
set of beliefs which sees society as in terminal decline due to structural factors, and importantly claims
that a revolution can only be obtained by promoting, rather than opposing, these destabilising trends.
Accelerationist ideology inspired, among others, the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque
shooting.