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Referring to the wave of violence against foreigners and asylum-seekers in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1990's, Bohleber explores the phenomenon of right-wing parties and other extremist groups, along with the re-emergence of anti-Semitism. It is the extremist attempt to enforce a reinterpretation of history, the loudly proclaimed wish for a clean break from the past, which furthers the denial of the Nazi past with a deep-seated memory blockage. One's own hatefulness is located in a stranger, and one tries to destroy, it there because of an unstable inner equilibrium and an uncertain self-identity which can be traced to the poor quality of maternal relationship and the suspicion of one's own siblings. The fantasy of the extremist group is of a unitary entity representing the mother's body, a function which the fatherland also assumes as a purely homogeneous community. For this to be achieved, everything that impairs an absolute state of purity has to be eliminated, and, thus, some of the very ideals of Nazism return in these extremist groups.