Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants

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 Zsch舊e 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 Kig, 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