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Post by spanishspy on Jun 14, 2016 23:00:32 GMT
Last night I watched the 2008 German film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex about the Red Army Faction with my father.
We both found it to be a very interesting movie about the thought processes behind terrorism, and how people are radicalized. I especially liked their usage of historical footage.
Has anyone else seen the film?
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Post by Krall on Jun 15, 2016 1:13:38 GMT
I haven't seen it, though I have to admit surprise that I'd never heard about this era of German history before. Basic British education seems to have skipped everything between the Berlin airlift and the fall of the Berlin Wall, for me at least.
It sounds like an interesting film - I dunno where I could get it, but I'll keep an eye out for it and watch it if I get the chance.
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Post by spanishspy on Jun 15, 2016 22:24:37 GMT
I haven't seen it, though I have to admit surprise that I'd never heard about this era of German history before. Basic British education seems to have skipped everything between the Berlin airlift and the fall of the Berlin Wall, for me at least. It sounds like an interesting film - I dunno where I could get it, but I'll keep an eye out for it and watch it if I get the chance. There's a subtitled version (with the exception of some bits set in Jordan and American bases in Germany, it is entirely in German) on YouTube, and my father and I watched it via Amazon. The Red Army Faction was part of a broader trend of leftist militarism in the parts Continental Europe aligned with the Western Bloc (along with the Provisional IRA in Ireland, Action Direct in France, the ETA in Spain, etc.), a lot of which was sparked by opposition to the Vietnam War. These groups I see as the very ugly underbelly of the counterculture of the sixties and seventies.
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