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I miss the 90s when xenophobia and the restriction of human rights was simply unfashionable, and everything was pointing in the right direction.

Germany was newly unified and full of hope, and nobody in the former DDR was even remotely considering becoming a neonazi.

That's just not true. Not true at all. The 90s in East-Germany were a time when we had a massive neonazi problem. There were many attacks, including many murders and a few pogromes. I was only a teenager from West Berlin, and I don't remember everything, but I knew some kids from villages outside of Berlin, and there it was necessary at that time that you defined yourself (visibly, by clothing!) basically as being either a leftist or a neonazi. Because neonazism was so widespread in Brandenburg, that you were either a part of it or you would make it clear to everybody that you weren't.

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