Experiencing reality Personal Narrative
My hometown Chemnitz: Between hatred and hope Personal Experiences and Historical Contexts of Right-wing by Luise Meerheim Extremism in Saxony
“We walk through our village in the evening eryone is singing along. Later, we witness them
when we suddenly hear music playing. Because going home. They laugh and shout ‘Sieg Heil.’ we want to know where it’s coming from, we get ~ Johanna Behring*, 19 years, living in Hartmannsdorf close closer. We’re perceiving male voices. Maybe 15 to Chemnitz people, sitting together in an allotment garden. The closer we get, the more we understand the I grew up in a village near Chemnitz. Chemnitz, lyrics of the song they are listening to: ‘In Buch- that’s a city of 250,000 inhabitants in eastern enwald, in Buchenwald, we kill all the Jews.’ Ev- Germany, the state of Saxony.
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