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A, i think botter was just goofball that just wanted to have fun. I don't take him seriously at all. But a, people like enslandon and minhof, i do think of them as leftest. And there's no doubt that minhof and enslin would be absolutely disgusted by horace mollard's recent statements ore for the past couple two decades,. or whatever. N i grew to mithyo. The basic political myth that was animating them, i don't think tas far off from what a german, a true german nationalist would want to do. Do you collaborate with the americans or not? A, i think that
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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.
