His acrimonious departure from the neo-Nazi community and the publication of his books,
Die Abrechnung: Ein Neonazi steigt aus written with Winfried Bonengel in 1993 and
Führer Ex written with Tom Reiss in 1996, caused his former comrades to send him a letter bomb disguised as a book, which package was opened by his mother, without however sustaining injury. Hasselbach then confessed his accumulated knowledge about the neo-Nazi community to the German
Federal Criminal Police Office. He did not only incriminate others but also himself. In 1997 he was given a two-year suspended sentence for an admitted fire-bombing of a left-wing, alternative youth club. After 1995 he traveled quite often to the United States where he began to work as a
journalist in the immediate aftermath of the
Oklahoma City bombing, focusing on local extreme
right-wing terrorism. This helped publicize the English version of his first book
Die Abrechnung,
Führer-Ex. Having finished his second book
Die Bedrohung - mein Leben nach dem Ausstieg (The threat - my life after the dropout) in 1996, Hasselbach lived for some time in the U.S. and the
U.K. and campaigned publicly for the abolition of the
death penalty and had numerous articles published in the news media on that topic. Following that period up until 2000 he worked together with Winfried Bonengel on the script for the movie "Führer Ex", with premiered in German cinemas at the end of 2002. Today Hasselbach lives in Berlin and works as a freelance writer and journalist. He lives together with German photographer Nadja Klier. ==Notes==