Panorama: Germany´s New Nazis review - as hate unfolds in Europe, big questions are asked
(The Guardian Germany)

This timely doc uses the rise of the far-right in a German town as a microcosm for a larger wave of issues. Plus, Alaska: A Year in the Wild offers a lovely escape It is an awful sign of our awful times that as last night´s Panorama: Germany´s New Nazis (BBC1) unfolded, my main thought was this: is it more soul-shrivelling to hear about the resurgence of the far right in a country you hoped had been inoculated against it for all time by the horrors of the Holocaust, or to see white supremacy steadily gain pace across the globe? God help us, either way.Panorama focused on an extremist cell called the Freital Group, from the town of Freital in Saxony, and its increasingly violent activities in the latter half of 2015, using the specific conditions in their corner of the world as the lens through which to view the wider malaise. Reunification in 1989 led to the end of most of the industry in the blue collar area. As Dirk, who has lived through the good times and the bad, says: `We work in order to meet bills and taxes. There is nothing left for feeding others.` Continue reading...