Zwickau: The town of the Trabis and the composer Robert Schumann, famous for its medieval old town. This is how the city presents itself on its internet portal. For 20-year-old Jakob Springfeld from Zwickau, his homeland is above all a reminder of the constant struggle against right-wing hostilities, violence and hatred, of mass demonstrations by neo-Nazis through the city center and the constant fear of becoming a victim of their terror. At the same time, Zwickau is the place of Jakob Springfeld’s political awakening and his commitment to tolerance and anti-fascism. In his first book “Unter Nazis” he reports on his fight against right-wing extremism.
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