In Hitler's Shadow

Israeli journalist and ex-detective Svoray pulled off a stunning investigative coup by penetrating Germany's neo-Nazi movement in 1992-93, and this extraordinary report, coauthored by Taylor (Sins of the Father), makes urgent reading. Posing first as an Austrian journalist, and later as a neo-Nazi sympathizer promising to funnel U.S. funds to German ultra-rightists, Svoray met several of Germany's leading neo-Nazis and toured a clandestine skinhead training camp. With assistance from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, he exposed close links among various German neo-Nazi groups, as well as their ties to U.S. and European neo-fascists. Svoray documented many of his encounters using hidden cameras and microphones, and this chilling expose is the basis for an HBO feature to air in 1995. His mission, unveiled to news media in mid-1993, forced the German government to acknowledge the threat posed by anti-Semitic, racist, hate-mongering neo-Nazi groups. Author tour. (Oct.)