In the summer of 1979, during a trip through Greece, only a few years after the country had rid itself of its military dictatorship, BAP's lead singer Wolfgang Niedecken worked on a text about neo-fascism, choosing the November Pogrom as its theme. In their early years, BAP drew heavily on the culture of political folk songs in the tradition of Bob Dylan. The motivation for the track was to raise awareness of the resurgence of right-wing populism in Europe and critique (West-) Germany's insufficient "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" of the Nazi period.