Description
A thrilling narrative investigation into the National Socialist Underground (NSU)a German terror organization that targeted immigrantsand 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 Zsch?pe and her two accomplicesand sometimes loversas they became radicalized within Germanys 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 blamedand sometimes framedthe 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 K?nig, 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.
Author: Jacob Kushner
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781538708118
Language: English
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