Motive
In the 1980s, on the outskirts of Chicago, there was a nascent scene that was coming up alongside punk. It adopted some of its style — shaved heads, steel-toed boots — and twisted a subculture based around obscure music into a rallying cry for race war. Three decades later, as we face another Neo-Nazi youth movement, class and WBEZ race reporter Odette Yousef delves into how the violent, racist subculture of Nazi skinheads pushed new life into a dying white supremacist movement. Throughout the eight-part show, she talks to everyone from researchers to former leaders of the movement, she asks difficult questions like, can a one-time Nazi ever really be a voice of change?
Storyline
In the 1980s, on the outskirts of Chicago, there was a nascent scene that was coming up alongside punk. It adopted some of its style — shaved heads, steel-toed boots — and twisted a subculture based around obscure music into a rallying cry for race war. Three decades later, as we face another Neo-Nazi youth movement, class and WBEZ race reporter Odette Yousef delves into how the violent, racist subculture of Nazi skinheads pushed new life into a dying white supremacist movement. Throughout the eight-part show, she talks to everyone from researchers to former leaders of the movement, she asks difficult questions like, can a one-time Nazi ever really be a voice of change?
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