The most painful consequence of the multifaceted Greek crisis is undoubtedly the triumphant entry into Parliament of an openly Nazi party. In the darkness that has covered the whole country, the black cloud of a political organization that invokes Hitler as a model and applies the violence of the street as a method of national resurgence is now added.

How did we get here? And how did Greece, which prided itself on its tolerance and traditional hospitality, end up at the lowest level of the most xenophobic European societies? How did the Pandora's box suddenly open and the once disreputable and marginal Greek Far Right now largely determine the political agenda, imposing its extreme choices on the party system at will? How did we forget the dictatorship? How is it possible to vote for a Nazi party in Distomo and Kalavryta? And how do we tolerate the mockery of the Holocaust in a country that lost the overwhelming majority of its Jewish citizens in concentration camps?

The answers to these questions require the study of the history and documents of the organization, from its founding in the distant 1980s to the present day, when it claims with ambitions to leave its own black imprint on political developments. In the texts, symbols, and above all, the actions of Golden Dawn, the reasons that allowed the reappearance of Assault Battalions in a European country are traced, as well as the ways to stop the descent into barbarism.