Political Books in Conversation - Terror from the Right and the Failure of the State

Reading and discussion with Tanjev Schulz

Murdering neo-Nazis, shady agents, overtaxed police officers

For years, Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschäpe lived underground. For years, the terrorists robbed and murdered without being stopped. For years, the authorities had no idea about this unprecedented series of murders by a National Socialist terrorist cell. How was this possible? This question remains explosive, even and especially after the verdict in the NSU trial.

Tanjev Schultz, who for years reported on internal security and also the NSU trial for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and now works as a professor of journalism at the University of Mainz, here tells the story of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) as a harrowing criminal history of a state organ failure.
His dramatic look into the abysses of the right-wing scene - and the German authorities - is based on the evaluation of thousands of pages of files, hundreds of witness statements and years of his own research.