Many eager listeners gathered into the University Ballroom Tuesday night to hear Yaron Svoray tell of his experiences undercover in the middle of German hate groups.

The story that he told included his tales of the time he spent in Germany in the heart of the Nazi movement that still exists in this day and age, years after World War II.

Svoray is the son of two survivors of the Holocaust. He was born in an Israeli desert, where until the age of five, he was unaware of the strong family background that he held. He currently works as a journalist and lectures on the existence of the Nazi movement today.

His tale began when he went hunting for diamonds after hearing the story of some hidden on the border of France and Germany. It was there that he came into contact with a local historian, who was German. Svoray was unable to reveal his real identity because of the clashing views between those of Jewish Israeli decent and those still involved in the Nazi movement. This man, who Svoray began to speak with, told him that he used to be apart of the elite unit of the Nazi army. He also introduced him to his nephew, who turned out to be the leader of the skin heads.

This man would lead Svoray down a path that he did not think was still possible. He showed him things that Svoray described as “literally shattering beyond belief.”

He talked more of the horrors that he became witness to when he continued his undercover work, including having a gun pointed to his head and being shot at in a high speed chase. By traveling into this “underworld” that is the Nazi movement, he met the backbone of Germany such as police officers and others in charge of law inforcement. He went inside to the hearts of many of the camps and talked to Germans in the area, and found that many people deny anything about the Holocaust, saying that Germans wouldn’t do anything like that.

Svoray said he feels that there are no new nazis and those that say they are neo-nazis are only a manifestation of a much more sinister problem in Germany.

“There are no neo-nazis,” he said. “(Old and new Nazis) are all the same.”