On July 11, 2018, the Munich Regional Court found Beate Zschape of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) group guilty on 10 counts of racially-motivated murder and sentenced her to life imprisonment. It also found four other defendants guilty of related crimes. The case raised serious questions about the social conditions in Germany that enabled the NSU to carry out their crimes. The Bundestag instigated a committee of inquiry into the neglect in the investigation of a racist motive for the murders enabling the killers to evade detection for over a decade.
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