Secret plot by 200 elite neo-Nazi soldiers within 'German SAS' to slaughter politicians and immigrants in mission known as 'Day X' is smashed after former major confesses all

By SEBASTIAN MURPHY-BATES 

Two-hundred elite soldiers who formed a covert neo-Nazi faction within Germany's equivalent of the SAS planned to butcher immigrants to the country.

They conspired to unleash chaos on what they code-named Day X when they planned to kill Green Party leader Claudia Roth, foreign minister Heiko Mass and ex-president Joachim Gauck.

But authorities smashed the breakaway group of the Bundeswehr's KSK unit before their death squads could carry out the assassinations.

The 200 soldiers were also set to target leaders of asylum groups they blamed for rapes, terror and social unrest, Berlin's new weekly, Focus reports.  

Their organisation's membership grew when Chancellor Angela Merkel let a million refugees into the country in 2015.  

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