Hans eis far smaller. As a culturalist vulk, we live in a second stone age. It's like that th thiss. The main problem in germany is like, i cannot free i mean, germany won't be free until it frees itself. Of the holicos cult. Ther they weren'tsoreal natural socialists. They were just people who worked in the regime because that's what people do. But isn't it laying thatte those people weren't consumed by a guilt complex the same way that their children were? And so think that his point was, i think he maintained for a long time, was that he had their parents just
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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.
