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Look away : a true story of murders, bombings, and a far-right campaign to rid Germany of immigrants / Jacob Kushner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 315 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781538708118
  • 1538708116
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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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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A thrilling narrative investigation into the National Socialist Underground (NSU) -- a German terror organization that targeted immigrants -- and how a government failed to stop it.



Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena. It was a time of excitement, but also of deep uncertainty: some four million East Germans found themselves out of work. The friends began attending far-right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis. And, like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills. From 2000 to 2011, they embarked on the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust. Their target: immigrants.



Look Away follows Beate Zschäpe and her two accomplices--and sometimes lovers--as they became radicalized within Germany's far-right scene, escaped into hiding, and carried out their terrorist spree. Unable to believe that the brutal killings and bombings were being carried out by white Germans, police blamed--and sometimes framed--the immigrants instead. Readers meet Gamze Kubaşık, whose family emigrated from Turkey to seek safety, only to find themselves in the terrorists' sights. It also tracks Katharina König, an Antifa punk who would help expose the NSU and their accomplices to the world. A masterwork of reporting and storytelling, Look Away reveals how a group of young Germans carried out a shocking spree of white supremacist violence, and how a nation and its government ignored them until it was too late.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-303) and index.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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