No other village in Germany is as famous as this hamlet of about eleven old and crumbling red brick Prussian-era houses, surrounded by fields, farmlands and lush forests, pristine lakes and gently rolling hills. With its sixty inhabitants, the village is only a few kilometers inland from the historic Baltic port city of Wismar, in the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage site. These blissful surroundings are not the reason for its popularity: the place, in fact, is famous because of its villagers. God left this beatific place a long time ago and now, against this serene landscape, there are leather boots, shiny shaved heads and tattoos.   Jamel sign board (Photo by Aaquib Khan) Welcome to the village of Jamel. In the summer of 1992, hundreds of violent neo-Nazis set ablaze an asylum-seeker’s hostel in Rostock, one of the main cities of the…

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