ISBN:
9781538708118
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 315 Seiten
Edition:
First edition
DDC:
305.9/069120943
Keywords:
Right-wing extremists History 21st century
;
Racism History 21st century
;
Immigrants History 21st century
;
Right and left (Political science) History 21st century
;
European history
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
Gender Studies: Frauen und Mädchen
;
Gender studies: women
;
HIS058000
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HISTORY / Europe / Germany
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HISTORY / Social History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Social & cultural history
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Sociology
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
;
Soziologie
;
Deutschland
;
Germany
Abstract:
"Not long after the Berlin Wall came down, three teenagers-a woman and two men-became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of a job. At first, the three friends spent their nights lingering in train stations, smoking, drinking, and looking for trouble. Then, they began attending far-right rallies with people called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, these Neo-Nazis-also known as the National Socialist Underground-blamed minorities for their ills: working-class men and women from countries like Turkey, Vietnam, and Greece who had been brought over as "guest workers" to fill jobs in Germanys' factories and mines. And so, from 2000 to 2011, the NSU began to kill them and their descendants one by one. It became the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust. Inside family homes, police and intelligence agencies, and a Munich courtroom, which would witness Germany's most sensational trial since Nuremburg, Look Away follows Beate Zschäpe and her two accomplices-and sometimes lovers-as they radicalized within Germany's far-right scene, escaped into hiding, and carried out their anti-immigrant killing spree. It also follows Katharina König, an Antifa punk who, sickened and frightened by the rise of Neo-Nazis in her hometown in the 1990s, began secretly tracking the NSU-and would later expose them to the world. This is the definitive account of how a group of young Germans carried out a shocking spree of white supremacist violence, and how a nation and its government looked the other way until it was too late"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Prologue: a fiery end -- Part I -- Rebirth of a nation -- The new Nazis -- Rostock riots -- Fiery cross -- Moles and minders -- Bombs over Jena -- Part II -- Refugees welcome -- "The bangs" -- Flowers for the dead -- Dead of summer -- Twenty-first century terror -- The bomb on the bike -- "Turkish mafia strikes again" -- A death in Dortmund, a killing in Kassel -- Dead men and homeless cats -- Part III -- The confetti cover-up -- The Chancellor's last chance -- Courtroom -- The spy in the cybercafé -- A terrorist speaks -- Judgment day -- Epilogue: Germany's reckoning.
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