Occasionally, confronted by neo-Nazi violence in the east of the country, he feels that "the world of Hitler did not collapse enough."

With neo-Nazi violence still in its early stages, it was quite easy to push aside questions that my earlier self would have placed uppermost.

The sentence caused uproar in eastern Germany, swept by neo-Nazi racist violence.

The sentence caused uproar in east Germany, which has been swept by neo-Nazi racist violence since the collapse of the Berlin wall.

Such attention has grown of late, with the government seemingly awakening to the fact that neo-Nazi violence, however marginal, has a terrible impact on Germany's image.

So far, the Austrian backlash has included little of the neo-Nazi violence against foreigners that has afflicted its larger neighbor.

A1 Germans report capturing two men charged in neo-Nazi violence.

But neo-Nazi violence began to rise again last year.

Germany will face increased neo-Nazi violence.

And now you have young people coming into a void with often embittered parents behind them and their disorientation turns to neo-Nazi violence.