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Since 1991 we have been experiencing a wave of violence in the Federal Republic of Germany, motivated by ultraright ideas and directed against foreigners and asylum seekers, who are insulted, physically attacked, and murdered, their homes and houses set on fire. These are not isolated, single acts. They flourish in a climate that has been brought about by the extreme right. Serious economic and social problems arising from German unification, the failure to find a political solution to the question of asylum seekers, concessions made to xenophobic sentiments, as well as the refusal to produce legislation on immigration have led to an increase of an already present hostility to strangers. In the recent elections in Germany fear of being swamped by foreigners was the main motive of those voting for parties of the right. The influence of economic uncertainty, unemployment, and impoverishment on voting behaviour is generally overestimated. Rather, a xenophobic mentality is always a strong sounding board for right-wing parties and provides for young people especially a consensual focus for a shift to the right. Hatred of strangers is also the unifying motive for most violence among youth. Eighty percent of them belong neither to extreme right-wing organizations or the skinheads. Violence has its origins within the mainstream of society. Anti-Semitism has also flared up again. It has all the characteristics of a defense mechanism against guilt. Ultra-right youths who defile Jewish cemeteries and attempt to destroy monuments and memorial places are trying to erase the memory of Nazi crimes. They want to remove this blemish from Germany.