Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena.
A masterwork of reporting and storytelling, Look Away reveals how a group of young Germans carried out a shocking spree of white supremacist violence, and how a nation and its government ignored them until it was too late..
It also tracks Katharina König, an Antifa punk who would help expose the NSU and their accomplices to the world.
Readers meet Gamze Kubaşık, whose family emigrated from Turkey to seek safety, only to find themselves in the terrorists\' sights.
Unable to believe that the brutal killings and Bombings were being carried out by white Germans, police blamed--and sometimes framed--the Immigrants instead.
Look Away follows Beate Zschäpe and her two accomplices--and sometimes lovers--as they radicalized within Germany\'s Far-Right scene, escaped into hiding, and carried out their terrorist spree.
Their target: immigrants.
From 2000 to 2011, they embarked on the most horrific string of white nationalist killings since the Holocaust.
Like the Hitler-led Nazis before them, they blamed minorities for their ills.
The friends began attending Far-Right rallies with people who called themselves National Socialists: Nazis.
It was a time of excitement, but also of economic crisis: some four million East Germans found themselves out of jobs.
Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the East German town of Jena
