German Police Quit Klan - Just Got too Weird

Germany - Documents have recently surfaced in the Baden-Wuerttemberg region's domestic intelligence agency that reveal two serving German police officers were members of a Ku Klux Klan group.  The European White Knights are a European Klan-offshoot with a bizarre initiation practice:

"The new clansman couldn't see a thing. His escorts had blindfolded him. He was led into a closed room, and was only then allowed to remove the blindfold. The room was filled with candles, with a wooden cross in the center. The newcomer was given a razor blade with which he had to cut his finger and make a mark with his blood on a written copy of the Ku-Klux-Clan vow. He sank to his knees, and a blunt sword tapped him on his shoulders"

Amazingly, the officers admitted to being part of the European White Knights during 2001-02.  However, after a few months, things apparently just got weird...

"According to their own accounts, they voluntarily left the group after witnessing xenophobia and racism."

So, just for clarification, the Ku Klux Klan members were turned off when the Ku Klux Klan wouldn't host a multicultural wine mixer?  I'd have to draw the line there as well.

Since they were good sports about quitting the Ku Klux Klan once they realized that the Peace Corps office was actually on the other side of the building (apparently both have similar looking hoods), the officers received nothing more than an official reprimand after the 2004 investigation.  They still remain on the force today.

"They didn't know that the Ku Klux Klan was a racist organization? I wonder how much stupidity a police officer can exhibit, how far removed from real life he has to be, before he's removed from service,"

- Andre Braun, president, Federation of State Employees of German Criminologists (BDK)

Truth, son!