Left Behind: romanticizing Germany’s urban guerillas

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Horst Mahler.

For 44 days in the fall of 1977, West Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF) held captive Hanns Martín Schleyer, a leading German industrialist. In exchange for letting Schleyer go, the RAF—a left-wing urban guerrilla organization—demanded the release of ten imprisoned members, including their leaders, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin.

See also, RAF - Baader Meinhof - Lessons to be learned
A brief history of the terrorists that became the archetypes of terrorism in the postmodern era as well as idols for the coming generations of radical opposition from the left. The offshoots becoming part of both the system they opposed as well as moving further to radical national revolution seen as an evolution of the revolutionary Andreas Baader as in the case of Horst Mahler.

In love with terror

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