Gods of Death by Yaron Svoray  (18)
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
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.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Journalist Svoray, who served in the Israeli Army and on the Tel Aviv detective force, describes himself as "a large man with a natural sense of self-confidence, a gift for talk, and a curiosity that sometimes outweighed prudence." Still, it must have take extraordinary courage for Svoray, the son of Jews who had fled Hitler's Europe, to infiltrate Germany's neo-Nazi movement and detail their political intentions. Svoray stumbled upon his initial neo-Nazi contact by accident. Backed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, he posed as a right-wing Australian journalist living in the United States who had the contacts to help fund the movement. Using the third person, he here recounts his experiences in colorful, you-are-there prose that brings home just how sleazy as well as frightening these fanatics are. Some readers might initially find the cloak-and-dagger tone a little offputting, but Svoray ultimately delivers a solid, highly readable account of an organized group that Germany has been trying to write off as a few malcontents.
Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Journalist Svoray, who served in the Israeli Army and on the Tel Aviv detective force, describes himself as "a large man with a natural sense of self-confidence, a gift for talk, and a curiosity that sometimes outweighed prudence." Still, it must have take extraordinary courage for Svoray, the son of Jews who had fled Hitler's Europe, to infiltrate Germany's neo-Nazi movement and detail their political intentions. Svoray stumbled upon his initial neo-Nazi contact by accident. Backed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, he posed as a right-wing Australian journalist living in the United States who had the contacts to help fund the movement. Using the third person, he here recounts his experiences in colorful, you-are-there prose that brings home just how sleazy as well as frightening these fanatics are. Some readers might initially find the cloak-and-dagger tone a little offputting, but Svoray ultimately delivers a solid, highly readable account of an organized group that Germany has been trying to write off as a few malcontents.
Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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