In the late fifties and sixties, there were a series of strikes in an industrial labor problems in west germany. And he was like this. It's where he emerged. His whole mission in life was built around the assumption we need to rebuild german industry. Right? Ah. So that often meant crushing labor disputes and being the sort of boogy man for the the college left. But i think his il approachis l oranyreitorih, he was a hated figure by the left. I think the schlyer stuff is when they really went off the rails. They lost a lot of support but remained a group slowly or mostly focused on directed anger at
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Growing up in the generation following the second world war, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof lead the West German militant Red Army Faction in a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations during the 1970s that led to the death of 35 people. Identifying with various leftist and communist causes including anti-imperialism, Maoism, and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group sought a break in their society from what they felt was a continuation of their parents’ generation of fascist government now under the control of what they saw as the American-led capitalist war machine. The group and their leaders in particular gained notoriety in the press and significant popularity amongst the youth of Germany, underscoring the generational divide that seemed to be growing in the shadow Nazi Germany’s defeat and subsequent de-Nazification process.
