180 Degrees: Stories Against Hate

In conversation with experts Bastian Berbner learns that hatred and prejudice can be overcome – at least in theory. He goes on a search for people who have accomplished just this – and finds many more than expected. The book looks to the places we fail to notice.  It tells the stories of encounters from an Irish village, a Danish police station, a school in Botswana, a terraced housing estate in Hamburg. We meet Nazis and Islamists and those who fight against them, and along the way we are immersed into a social psychology experiment that offers another view onto the world and suggests a way to combat one of the great crises of our time.