The cynical reasons for this ar are broadly stemmed, actually, from the united states. And really the ar sotat the internationalist with their fingers in germany who wanted to insure that the germans never actually stood on their own two feet after the war. There were a couple of attempts at creating a, a kind of anti terror group, or some kind of domestic intelligence group - but they all ended up being decried as part of the knots.
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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.
