Newsweek's next issue has a good piece on the problem of just discussing neo-Nazis in Germany. "Strangely, Germany's debate over racism seems to be less about racism than about what one is (and isn't) allowed to say about it. ... When one western politician in Brandenburg, Jörg Schönbohm, dared to suggest last year that there might be a relationship between the east's higher crime rate and the moral vacuum produced by Communism, he was vilified." Yeah, and Schönbohm seems to have learned his lesson. He was one of the guys who jumped on Uwe-Karson Heye for "insulting" Brandenburg in May.
Here's a piece I wrote last year for Salon on the NPD rising in the east; the interesting stuff comes near the end.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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