In Hitler's shadow
Subtitle: an Israeli's amazing journey inside Germany's neo-Nazi movement
By: Yaron Svoray and Nick Taylor ; with an introduction by Simon Wiesenthal.
Contributors: Taylor, Nick, 1945-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Nationalism -- Germany; Israelis -- Germany -- Politics and government; Racism -- Germany; National characteristics, German; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1990-; Germany -- Ethnic relations
Description: In September 1992 Yaron Svoray, an Israeli journalist, was traveling 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 of "Ron Furey," the American representative of a fictitious 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 believers 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 has penetrated its heart of darkness.
Notes: Includes index.