There's no chance that antipa will ever bring about like the german autumn bur you basically have the collapse of the government, and you nearly have a huge working class riots. I think they's like, if anything, they're allowed to exist so that fed and a thyu know, the professional bagmen can sharpen their teethn get good at their jobs,. So they can kind of play pretend. But i, you know, it was the bonner minof group who were able to demonstrate real tactical knowledge actually opposed the threat to sort of the west german commercialist system. And really the note, the r a f in general, led to a, you will not
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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.
