A former white supremacist appeared on The View to discuss the unlikely bond he has forged over the past four years with a man whose father was murdered in a shooting that took place inside a Sikh Temple.

Arno Michaelis founded a white power group when he was a young man that later attracted Wade Michael Page, who in August of 2012 opened fire and killed six people in a mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek.

Page then turned the gun on himself and took his own life after being shot in the stomach by an officer on the scene.

One of the victims was Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65, of Milwaukee, and in the aftermath of the brutal massacre his son, Pardeep Kaleka, reached out to Michaelis.

Since then, Kaleka and Michaelis have become best friends, and shared the details of their unlikely bond on Monday.

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Brotherhood: Arno Michaelis (left) and Pardeep Kaleka (right) appeared on The View to talk about their unlikely friendship over the past four years

Tragedy: Michaelis helped to found a white power group whose member murdered six inside a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012, including Kaleka's father (Kelka, his father and his son above)

Michaelis began the interview by explaining the factors that led to him becoming a white supremacist as a teenager.

'I grew up in a household where emotional violence was the norm, and I reacted by lashing out and hurting people,' said Michaelis.

'As a teenager I was a full-blown alcoholic and, I became a warrior with a cause - to save the white race.

'With my bare hands I beat people within an inch of their lives over the color of their skin, their sexuality, or simply just for the adrenaline rush.

'I was the lead singer of a white power band that sold over 20,000 CDs of the most violent and hateful music ever made. I wrote songs that inspired brutal racial attacks.'

He later added of that time: 'All that mattered was the color of my skin. The more violence and cruelty I put out there, the more that would come back to me.

'I figured that was the rest of my life.'

When Michaelis was asked what it was in his life that eventually made him change his ways, he pointed to members of the same groups he hated who showed him compassion.

'I'm here today because people that I claimed to hate had the courage to set an example of humanity for me,' said Michaelis.

'A Jewish boss, a lesbian supervisor, black and Latino coworkers treated me with kindness when I least deserved it and needed it the most.

'And it really demonstrated how much better life could be if I shed this self-imposed narrative of hatred that i assumed as my identity.'

Past: Michaelis (ahbove in his teens) revealed that he feels responsible for the shooting and that when he sees photo of Page it reminds him of himself

Hate: 'I put that narrative out in the world through the music of my band, it would be ignorant for me to not feel responsibility,' said Michaelis (above in his teens)

Brutal: 'With my bare hands I beat people within an inch of their lives over the color of their skin, their sexuality, or simply just for the adrenaline rush,' said Michaelis (above)

Talk then turned to the Sikh shooting, and the man responsible for the crime.

'The man who committed that atrocity was in many ways who I used to be,' explained Michaelis.

'He was in a white power band, he was part the same skinhead gang that I had helped to found.

'When I see pictures of him I see myself. And it's an incredibly uncomfortable feeling.'

Gunman Wade Michael Page (above) killed six before taking his life

Michaelis then explained through tears how the last person to be murdered that day fought Page off with a butter knife, which allowed police to make their way to the scene before more people could be shot dead.

That sixth man had five bullet wounds in his body.

It was only because Kaleka's daughter Amaris, now 12, had forgotten her notebook for Sunday school and they were running late that the family - including his pregnant wife Jaspreet, now 37 - were not caught up in the shooting themselves.

When asked why he reached out to Michaelis in the wake of this horrific tragedy, Kaleka said: 'Just to understand the why. We understood the how, but we did not understand the why.'

He went on to say: 'In the aftermath of it we were going through our own grieving process but this was different. It was on national TV. It was one of the worst race-based hate incidents that had happened in 50 years, since the Birmingham bombing.'

The ladies then asked Michaelis if he felt responsible for the tragedy.

'Absolutely. I feel like I helped to create the environment that that man came from and in that sense I have responsibility, said Michaelis.

'I put that narrative out in the world through the music of my band, it would be ignorant for me to not feel responsibility.'

Coming to terms: Kaleka later said that while he has forgiven, he has not forgotten what happened to his father

Close: 'Our relationship now is a genuine brotherhood. We see each other every day. He babysits my kids, he comes over to my house without knocking,' said Kaleka (above with Michaelis)

Kaleka later said: 'Originally, when I told people I was going out to meet a former white supremacist for dinner, everyone was like you've lost your mind. You must be going through something, Are you OK?'

That is all in the past now though, and after all these years the two have managed to defy the odds and become best friends.

'Our relationship now is a genuine brotherhood. We see each other every day. He babysits my kids, he comes over to my house without knocking,' said Kaleka.

That does not mean however that he is not still reminded of the events that caused him to lose his father.

'Forgiveness is definitely not about forgetting because we have not forgotten,' said Kaleka.

'Forgiveness is about trying to make a mission out of it.'

Page stormed into the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin at about 10am that summer Sunday in 2012, shooting two victims outside first in the parking lot, and then another in the hallway, before making his way into the prayer room where he shot his fourth victim.

As people scattered around the temple trying to find hiding spots, he shot his final two victims.

Meanwhile, a group of worshippers - including Kaleka's mother - hid in a closet.

Page shot dead six victims including Suveg Singh Khattra, 84, Ranjit Singh, 49, Sita Singh, 41, Paramjit Kaur, 41, and Prakash Singh, 39.