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The Guardian Archive Long Read.

Hi, I'm Daniel Trilling.

I'm a journalist and also based in London.

And I'm the author of The Guardian Long Read, Golden Dawn,

The Rise and Fall of Greece in the Arnazis,

which was originally published in March 2020.

So this story actually came from some reporting

that I'd been working on for almost a decade.

I first got interested in Greece during the time of the financial crisis.

And I first went to Greece in 2012 to report on the social and political

fallout from a crisis.

This was at a time when Greece was going through this very

severe economic turmoil and Greek society had polarized.

There was a big rise in support for far left and far right political parties.

There were lots and lots of street protests going on in Athens.

I've actually been following the story of Golden Dawn ever since I first went to Greece in 2012.

And initially it was about how this very openly fascist and neo-Nazi political party

had managed to gain this prominent role in Greek politics.

It was a really important story for me because it was this question of how

in the Europe that had declared never again after the Second World War

and in a country Greece that had suffered so brutally at the hands of Nazi occupiers during

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