ABSTRACT
What attraction do the groups and the ways of thinking of far-right extremism hold for young people? What social, familial and biographical factors bring about the formation and dissolution of that attraction and of a career with the far right? How does this political affiliation get embedded in a young person’s biography? And what effects does it have on his or her presentation of that biography? These questions are central to this chapter, which is based on the research I carried out between 1989 and 1991 in West Germany, involving youths, currently and formerly, on the far right (Michel and Schiebel 1989; Schiebel 1991, 1992).
