description: In September 1992 Yaron Svoray, an Israeli journalist, was travelling in Germany when he met a young man, a skinhead, who, taking Svoray to be a sympathetic American and not realizing he was Jewish, introduced him to the semisecret world of German neo-Nazism. In a short time, Svoray contacted the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and, with the center's backing, returned to Germany under the name 'Ron Furey', the American representative of a fictitous right-wing organization. So began a remarkable and shocking series of encounters between Svoray and members of Germany's neo-Nazi underground. Putting himself at great personal risk and constantly fearing that his identity would be discovered, Svoray met - and documented with hidden cameras and recording devices - a terrifying array of belivers both young and old whose reach, he was shocked to find out, extends throughout Germany and beyond. He came across brutal young skinheads; paramilitary training camps that ! have sent neo-Nazi fighters to support Croatian soldiers in the former Yugoslavia; a network of committed neo-Nazis who are using their money and connections to establish political organizations; and politicians of the far right who cloak their connections to the movement in nationalist rhetoric. 'In Hitler's Shadow' is a sobering report on the real threat that is posed by Germany's neo-Nazi movement, and a startling portrayal of the dangerous personalities behind it, told by a man of immense courage who had penetrated its heart of darkness.
language: English
title: In Hitler's Shadow : An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement
titlecomplete: In Hitler's Shadow : An Israeli's Journey Inside Germany's Neo-Nazi Movement
characters: Yaron Svoray
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 40
places: Germany
publisher: Constable