In Germany, right-wing violence is a problem no one wants to see

Germany has been lauded for how it has grappled with the legacy of the Holocaust and its anti-Semitic past. A sense of collective guilt is cultivated through school tours of concentration camps and public memorials, including brass stones placed in front of apartment buildings to honor the victims of the Holocaust who once lived inside. It speaks to the seriousness with which Germans take their vow to never forget the crimes of earlier generations.

Yet even as the country has tended to its collective memory, officials have neglected a persistent strain of racism and xenophobia that education and memorials have been unable to eradicate. Such beliefs, alongside unvanquished neo-Nazi ideology, have fueled the formation of underground right-wing terrorist cells and periodically erupt in acts of violence. Read more.