>Also, there's the continuous effort to ban the right-wing party (NPD).

"Normal" right-wing as in conservative would be CDU and CSU. To quote the Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) [0]

>Die Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) vertritt ein auf die Beseitigung der bestehenden freiheitlichen demokratischen Grundordnung gerichtetes politisches Konzept.

The Nationaldemocratic Party Germany (NPD) stands for a political concept aimed at abolishing the free democratic constitutional structure.

[0] https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...

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You mean the NPD which was ruled unconstitutional but too small to be of importance, therefore not outlawed? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/world/europe/german-court...

Horrible.

I'm not fully following on what your point is; My post was primarily intended to be informative of political actions on the other side of extremism.

Also, banning a political party is quite a big hammer, regardless of how important the party itself is.

Do you have any awareness about the laws governing the history of violent extremism in Germany? Theres a reason right wing and far right wing parties face legal scrutiny.

Technically speaking, there's no law governing any history; There's laws governing behavior in the present that arose from events in history. I live in Germany for 12 years by now; I can't claim a lawyer-level knowledge of e.g. §130 StGB, but I have a basic understanding.

What I'm having trouble following is the logic of "the violent extremism on the other side is less bad, because it hasn't led to similarly horrible effects yet".

Continuous, but also decidedly unsuccessful.

This shut down will be just as successful.