Laughing, he points with his finger to a swastika within an Iron Cross, which is on the plinth of the bust. A photo taken at a party held by the firm shows Gaßmann posing with the bust of a Wehrmacht soldier. Gaßmann and his colleagues make no effort to conceal their far-right, fascistic outlook.
Gaßmann is a former paratrooper in the German army and has, according to “Kontraste,” close contacts in Germany’s national security apparatus.
Most of them were paratroopers, but there were also some mountain troopers and grenadiers, “but all of them are alpha animals,” as he boasted in an interview with the right-wing Bild daily in 2017. In 2017, Dirk Gaßmann, the head of the firm, employed 25 men who had previously served as German soldiers in Iraq. In the hallway of the base, the Wehrmacht slogan “Don’t complain, fight!” is shown in old German script alongside a picture of a Wehrmacht soldier.ĭuring their operations as bodyguards in Iraq, the mercenaries wore the German flag on the breasts and arms of their uniform. A military flag of the German Reich hangs prominently in a waiting room above some seats. Whiteboards, operational plans and several rooms are covered in old German script. A breeding ground for Wehrmacht traditions and fascist ideologyĪ video recently published from the same year shows the fascist Wehrmacht traditions on which the firm and its employees base themselves. Asgaard’s headquarters in Iraq was located in 2017 inside the Green Zone, the strictly guarded area of central Baghdad where the government and international representatives are located, and from where the imperialist forces active in the country are commanded. The firm is hired, for example, to guard the diplomatic offices of an Arabian power in Iraq, with rumours indicating that the power in question is Saudi Arabia. News magazine Der Spiegel and public broadcaster ARD’s “Kontraste” television programme reported earlier this month on a wide-ranging right-wing extremist network associated with the Asgaard security firm, which reportedly has close ties to Germany’s military, police and state apparatus.Īsgaard advertises among and employs former and active police officers and soldiers, who were described by Kontraste as highly specialised men.
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