Salon.com > Josie Le Blond http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Undercover with the neo-Nazis http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/undercover_with_the_neo_nazis/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/14/undercover_with_the_neo_nazis/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:18:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13170604 Global Post BERLIN, Germany — This time around, he wore dark glasses, a bushy blond beard and a black beanie pulled down low. It was only his latest disguise, used to greet foreign press at a conference in Berlin.

The man who goes by "Thomas Kuban" must at all costs keep his identity a secret — after all, Europe's neo-Nazis would kill to get their hands on him.

For 15 years, Kuban, now in his mid thirties, risked his life secretly filming neo-Nazi rock concerts, events he says are the conspiratorial heart of Europe's diverse and burgeoning neo-Nazi scene.

His camera rolling, Kuban has witnessed hundreds of fanatics venerating the perpetrators of Auschwitz and calling for Jews and foreigners to be murdered. He has watched dumbfounded as crowds of thousands raise their hands in the Hitler salute shouting, “Sieg Heil,” or as Austrian police shook hands with neo-Nazis.

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