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THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE EMERGENCE OF A NEO-NAZI TERRORIST MOVEMENT IN SWEDEN, FOCUSING ON THE LARGEST GROUP, VITT ARISKT MOTSTAND (WHITE ARYAN RESISTANCE). VAM IS INSPIRED BY TRADITIONAL NATIONAL SOCIALISM, THE MILITANT WING OF THE SKINHEAD MOVEMENT, SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID IDEOLOGY AND, ESPECIALLY, US RACIST GROUPS LIKE "THE ORDER". NOTIONS OF THE "ZIONIST OCCUPATION GOVERNMENT" (ZOG) AND THE COMING "RACIAL WAR" ARE CENTRAL IN VAM'S WORLDVIEW. THE ADAPTATION OF THIS EXTREME REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY RADICALIZED THE GROUP TOWARDS TERRORISM. THE QUEST FOR STATUS AND PRESTIGE WITHIN THE GROUP AND VIS-A-VIS OTHER GROUPS HAS ALSO BEEN AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THIS RADICALIZATION PROCESS.

This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popular culture, with examples drawn from mainland Europe, the UK, North and Latin America, Asia, and beyond. This approach fits with the established dominance of global multimedia formats, and will be useful for students, scholars, and researchers in all forms of film and media. Along with the essential need to examine current trends in Nazism and neo-Nazism in contemporary media globally, what makesthis book even more necessary is that it engages with debates that go to the very heart of our understanding of knowledge: history, memory, meaning, and truth.

PEACE IS NOT ACHIEVABLE WITHOUT COMING TO GRIPS WITH ITS CONTRADICTION, HATRED. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS A STUDY OF INDIVIDUALS WHOSE LIVES, ONCE DEVOTED TO HATRED, HAVE COME TO PEACE WITH THEIR ONE-TIME ANTAGONISTS. ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO ANALYZE SOCIOLOGICALLY THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR CONVERSIONS AND SO TO ADD A PROPOSITION TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF PEACE. THE PEOPLE STUDIED ARE: TOMMY TARRANTS, GREG WITHROW, CLINTON SIPES, TOMMY ROLLINS JOYCE BENEDICT, AND JOHN LUFKIN. THE CONCLUSION IS THAT IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE TO VIEW INVOLVEMENT IN NEO-NAZISM AS NECESSARILY ENDURING. IN GENERAL, A SIGNIFICANT OTHER, WILLING TO ESTABLISH TIES WITH SOMEONE WHO HATES, IS REQUIRED TO HELP THAT PERSON MOVE AWAY FROM HIS HATRED.