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Jacques Pluss: Why I Pretended to Be a Neo-Nazi

In an exclusive story published by the History News Network, historian Jacques Pluss claimed that last year he orchestrated a damning leak that he was a Neo-Nazi in order to infiltrate the group for a research project. After the leak he was fired by Fairleigh Dickinson University. The case attracted national headlines.

Click here to read the story--"Now It Can Be Told: Why I Pretended to Be a Neo-Nazi":
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