Aggressively forgotten: Right-wing Terrorism in Germany
Brilliantly written and meticulously researched by one of Germany’s leading researchers on anti-Semitism: Significant contemporary history and a highly topical book on the debate at the same time
»Ultimately, the NSU murder series 20 years later was also only possible because people had already refused to draw conclusions from right-wing terrorism in 1980.«
Uffa Jensen reconstructs the crime and its motivations. He follows the connections to the PLO, in whose camp the »Wehrsportgruppe« was trained, sheds light on the role of its founder, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, and relates the assassination to the other attacks of 1980 in which more people in Germany were killed by (right-wing) terrorism than in any other year. In doing so, Jensen reveals the patterns in dealing with right-wing terrorism that would be repeated several more times in the future – a history of violence, trivialisation and repression that continues to this day.
»Historian Uffa Jensen ... explores the crime itself and its structurally delayed investigation. Anyone who opens this book will see sad continuities and learn, also with a view to today’s ›Reichsbürger‹ scene: the path from crude conspiracy theories to taking action is not far.« Welt am Sonntag
»an important study« Till Schmidt, taz am wochenende
»Historian Uffa Jensen ... explores the crime itself and its structurally delayed investigation. Anyone who opens this book will see sad...
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Uffa Jensen
Uffa Jensen, born in 1969, teaches History at the Technical University of Berlin and is a researcher at their Center for Research on Antisemitism.
Uffa Jensen, born in 1969, teaches History at the Technical University of Berlin and is a researcher at their Center for Research on...
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
How the Couch Came to Calcutta
At the end of the 19th century in Vienna, Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis. It developed into a global phenomenon in just a few decades. Concepts like »super-ego«, »narcissism« or »the Oedipus complex« have long been a part of our everyday speech. In order to understand this dynamic development, Uffa Jensen considers three cities which, in addition to Vienna, were of great importance for...
The Politics of Rage
If we had a device for measuring the intensity of collective feelings, at the moment it would be in the red: in most of our political debates rational arguments and mutual respect have given way to fury, hate, and anxiety.
Uffa Jensen traces the origins of the politics of rage back into the 19th century and explains how these feelings of rejection function. In so...