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ADOLF HITLER AND HIS JACKbooted cohort had Horst Wessel and Wagner's Teutonic blood-music to get them in the mood. Former neo-Nazi hooligan Ingo Hasselbach and his Doc Martens--style head bangers had Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols...
History repeating itself as farce? We should be so lucky. If the 27-year-old Hasselbach's autobiography, Fuhrer-Ex (Random House; 384 pages; $24), demonstrates anything, it is that Germany's small but venomous neo-Nazi movement, along with supporters in Austria and the U.S., can tap the same depths of irrationality that possessed Central Europe 60 years ago. Past and present reminders of that madness now reach us with context-blurring frequency. Contemporary television images of skinheads tattooed with swastikas and the firebombed houses of Germany's Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging...
...attacks on rival anarchist gangs and foreign residents. In the early 1990s--about the same time he began questioning his choice of careers--Hasselbach found what he calls a new "father figure." He was a French-based German filmmaker who, in the course of making a documentary titled Profession Neo-Nazi, inspired the now weary 25-year-old Hasselbach to renounce his past...
...career--and his beginnings were darkened as well by revelations in 1994 that during World War II he worked for the collaborationist Vichy regime before joining the Resistance. He was gravely ill from prostate cancer when he handed over the presidency on May 17 to his longtime rival, Neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac. Mitterrand was the longest-serving President in French history...
...Today the name Zhirinovsky is practically a diagnosis." A delegate to the Liberal Democratic Patty of Russia's presidential convention, speaking against the party's choice of neo-fascist crazy Vladimir Zhirinovsky as their candidate for president...