I Think It's an Interesting Time, in Ah, in West Germany
I see it as a reawakening of real political self assertion of german people. And i if wha t was done to germany, in a certain sense, i i see this as the revenge of the third rake in a particular sense. I don't begrudge them at all what they did there. How can you? How would you feel? It's your country. That's thust. Why i've tried to, tried to bring it. and i think, yo, you're picking up when i'm put down.
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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.
