Media reports in Germany revealed the authorities' frustration with a plot involving 200 members of the German Special Forces, which targeted the killing of Syrian refugees and politicians supporting migration as part of a wider scheme to spread chaos.
The neo-Nazi group has drawn up an agenda for chaos called Day X or Day 10 and listed their targets as the assassination of Green Party leader Claudia Roth, Foreign Minister Hiku Mas and former President Joachim Gock, according to German weekly Fox.
But the authorities were able to discover the group formed within the federal special forces, before the death squads began to carry out assassinations.
The group set out to carry out killings within the Syrian refugee community, according to the German magazine.
The group began to form after German Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees, mostly Syrians, to enter the country in 2015.
According to a report, the group's interrogation of the extremist group "paints a picture of a conspiratorial force that does not hesitate to kill political opponents."
Investigations revealed that the day of chaos was "imminent."
The authorities initially thought the plot was a fantasy for an alcohol addict, but the investigators received important testimony from a former air force commander, the magazine said.
All conspirators belong to a military unit called Unitaire, founded in 1996 to care for soldiers deployed in operations in Afghanistan and Africa.
The military has denied its knowledge of the group, but German authorities are conducting sweeps of training camps on the Austrian and Swiss borders in search of weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies for the conspirators.
