The Baader-Meinhof Complex

This book is neither an indictment nor a defense attorney's plea.
It is not a judgment either in legal or historical terms. It is the
story of the Red Army Faction (or Baader-Meinhof Group, according to the German
media), which has its roots in the student protests of the 1960s. The
The official kick-off has two moments: a general one, with the shooting of
student Benno Ohnesorg by police during a demonstration against the Shah
of Persia in June 1967 and a specific one, with the liberation of Andreas Baader
in May 1970, who was then imprisoned in connection with the arson of a
department store, as a protest against the Vietnam War.
The war of six against six million (Heinrich Böll) led to an unprecedented
mobilization of the German government and its security services, culminating
in the German autumn, in which the violence of the RAF reaches its height (or depth)
point reached with the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer, and the hijacking by
Palestinians from a Lufthansa plane, both executed to capture captured raffles
to be released. After the RAF leaders learned that German special
units had stormed the plane in Mogadishu and the hijackers were
shot dead, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe committed
according to the German government it was suicide, which is still doubted by many
is becoming.
The Baader Meinhof Complex is presented in an attractive way, in
short and lively written chapters the fascinating story of a
group of young people who are outraged by the support of the West
towards the war in Vietnam, the lack of denazification in Germany and the
injustices of capitalist society turned to violence
and fought against the Germans with bombs, kidnapping and murder
stands.
The standard work on the Red Army Faction The interesting thing about the
Aust's book is that it politicizes; that it discriminates against the political and social
Environment of that time places. Indeed a complex time, just after the
narrow-minded fifties, with slumbering reforms and in the background that
terrible and unprocessed past of the Second World War
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