Nadav Eyal Encounters Neo-Nazis in 2014
February 5, 2021
It’s pouring rain when I arrive with my producer, Antonia Yamin, in Schleusingen, a small town in what was once East Germany. We drive to the address we had been given, but no one is there. Our news organization is nervous about this meeting with neo-Nazis. We have told our editor that, if we do not call in at the time of the meeting to tell him that all is well, he is to alert the German police.
We wait for a few anxious minutes and a black car appears. Out steps Patrick Schroeder, tall and blond, with a square jaw and narrow-set eyes. His companion is Tommy Frenck, a neo-Nazi who ran for a seat on the local council. Frenck was once convicted for involvement in incitement.