Meinen Feind verteidigen

This book is only available in German.

The book is a stimulus for new thinking about the open, current confrontation with the Nazis in Germany. In April 1977, the American Nazi Party planned a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, which is home to one of the largest communities of Holocaust survivors. The plan sparked a heated debate, which Aryeh Neier explains in his book Meinen Feind verteidigen.

Himself a child of Jewish descent, whose family had to flee Berlin in 1939, he decided to defend the right to demonstrate as chairman of the American Civil Liberties Union. He described his own dilemma with the words: "How can I, as a Jew, refuse to defend freedom, even if it is that of the Nazis?"

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