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Führer-Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi
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Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five
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Hardcover, 388 pages
Published
January 16th 1996
by Random House
(first published January 1st 1993)
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A candid autobiography by the young man who was briefly the leader of the Neo-Nazi movement in the early 1990's. He makes no apologies for his actions, which included a number of fistfights, acts of vandalism, and even a bombing, and he rather gleefully details the silly and pointless tasks that he would come up with to initiate new members. (Like writing essays about Joan Baez's music.) Having no truly deep-seated Nazi sympathies, he was really just looking for a way to stick it to the establis
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This is my desert island book, the one I would save in a fire, the one I recommend to everyone. It embodies the best and worst possibilities of human nature.
In many ways a wholly unpleasant and frightening book and yet in another..a book that shows how extreme beliefs can be born.
This is set in Germany before the wall came down and after and shows a country in translation...a country in which some denied the past rather than deal with the collective shame others felt.
It's also interesting to read how the right rose when Helmut Kohle was under pressure to deal with immigration problems and the fear that immigrants where utilising the welfare state..i ...more
This is set in Germany before the wall came down and after and shows a country in translation...a country in which some denied the past rather than deal with the collective shame others felt.
It's also interesting to read how the right rose when Helmut Kohle was under pressure to deal with immigration problems and the fear that immigrants where utilising the welfare state..i ...more
Mehr ein "So kam ich rein" und "So war es drin" als "So kam ich raus", soll heißen: Wer eine reine Ausstiegsstory erwartet, könnte enttäuscht werden. Der Titel passt gut, es ist schon eine Abrechnung, zum einen für Hasselbach selbst, der sein altes Leben Revue passieren lässt, zum anderen mit den vielen Neonazi-"Größen" der frühen 90er Jahre, die hier alle sehr "anschaulich" porträtiert werden. Da das Ganze angenehm nüchtern an der Grenze zu emotionslos erzählt wird, wirkt es auch nicht wie ein
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This book was so eye-opening. This is the story of the head of the neo-nazi party in Germany and how he was able to get out of it. He explains what drew him into the group and how he was practically brainwashed. Very interesting.
I thought that this book was an interesting account of someone who is easily influenced down a bad path when they are young, then has a moment of awakening or realisation that sees them move from the far right to somewhere closer to the norm.
When we are young, many things seem simple. In the case of Ingo, he hated the state. And if many of the things he recalls are real, then I'm not surprised that he went to the far right for a while. But what matters is that, over time, he came to realise wha ...more
When we are young, many things seem simple. In the case of Ingo, he hated the state. And if many of the things he recalls are real, then I'm not surprised that he went to the far right for a while. But what matters is that, over time, he came to realise wha ...more
A very candid and insightful story from one of the top nazi's of the late eighties and early nineties. While this book is around 15 years old now, it's depth and brevity of the inner workings of the modern neo-nazi movement is quite astounding, as it would be from someone who has had first hand experience of it and helping to build it.
Worth reading if your a serious scholar of the subject or a layman. It's also a well written and accessible insight into a very dangerous phenomena.
Worth reading if your a serious scholar of the subject or a layman. It's also a well written and accessible insight into a very dangerous phenomena.
An interesting book with a lot of new information for me about the state of affairs in Germany post-WWII.
Very creepy. Especially how much the anarchists and the hooligans reminded me of the kids from A Clockwork Orange.
The American who passed out most of the hate propaganda was strange to hear about. I suppose you'd think it was going to be Germany where it started.
Very creepy. Especially how much the anarchists and the hooligans reminded me of the kids from A Clockwork Orange.
The American who passed out most of the hate propaganda was strange to hear about. I suppose you'd think it was going to be Germany where it started.
Absolutely intense life story.
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Ingo Hasselbach (born Ingo Füllgrap), a former German neo-Nazi, is the author of the book "Führer Ex: Memoirs of a Former Neo-Nazi". Furthermore he was co-founder of the German EXIT project, which helps people leave the neo-Nazi community.
Ingo Hasselbach, geb. Füllgrap ist der bekannteste Aussteiger der Neonazi-Szene. Er ist Autor der Bücher Führer Ex (englisch, mit Tom Reiss) und Die Abrechnung – ...more
Ingo Hasselbach, geb. Füllgrap ist der bekannteste Aussteiger der Neonazi-Szene. Er ist Autor der Bücher Führer Ex (englisch, mit Tom Reiss) und Die Abrechnung – ...more
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