a cell-based organization akin to Leaderless resistance, albeit one that he personally called the "100 Hitlers policy", arguing that it allowed the movement to continue to function even when individual cells were brought down by law enforcement. Withrow claimed that he renounced racism in 1987 due to the death of his father and the fact that he had fallen in love with a woman whose family had come to the United States as refugees from Nazi Germany. Departure Withrow decided to quit the movement in 1987 after his father died and he fell in love with a woman whose family had fled Hitler's Germany. He stated that "I've said a lot of terrible things and I've spread a lot of harm; I don't want to hate anymore". Soon after his departure from the far-right he claimed that he was attacked in a parking lot near a branch of K-Mart in Sacramento by a skinhead gang whose number included his former best friend. He claimed that his former friends captured him and tortured him to near death before he was able to escape. He had been nailed to a crossbeam and slashed with knives before being left for dead. However he regained consciousness and ran off, with the beam still nailed in place, and sought assistance from several passers-by before an African-American couple came to his aid. Media career After details of the attack were disseminated Withrow became the centre of media attention. Now publicly declaring his support for anti-racism, Withrow became a mainstay on daytime television and tabloid talk shows, being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, Phil Donahue and Montel Williams, as well as accepting speaking engagements for groups such as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. On one occasion he appeared alongside Tom Metzger's son John on The Phil Donahue Show and Withrow claimed that Metzger told him that he deserved to die for leaving the white supremacist movement. His autobiography, Child of the Fourth Reich, was released around this time and it was praised by Anti-Defamation League regional director Richard G. Hirschhaut as "a riveting account of one person's passage through the subterranean milieu of paranoia and hatred and his ultimate redemption through love". A movie version of the book was even mooted with Woody Harelson and Sean Penn, with both saying that they were interested in Withrow's life story. Withrow also provided testimony to a number of government