A German woman accused of involvement in 10 neo-Nazi murders broke her silence for the first time in four years, telling a court in Munich that she only learned of the deaths after they had taken place.

Most of the victims were immigrants and their deaths at first failed to make headlines.

The highest-profile neo-Nazi murder trial in Germany in decades opened amid tight security and intense media interest, with the five accused appearing in public for the first time since their arrest more than a year ago.

The highest-profile neo-Nazi murder trial in Germany in decades opened today amid tight security with the five accused appearing in public for the first time since their arrest more than a year ago.

Prosecutors call Beate Zschaepe Germany’s most dangerous neo-Nazi and from Monday, she will sit in the dock in the country’s biggest far-right murder trial of the post-war period.