1. Write a post providing your personal response to the movie we viewed together: Baader-Meinhof Complex. 250-300 words. Yes, we did not finish the film yet. But you have seen enough to complete this task.
2. Then reserach the "Rote Armee Fraktion" RAF and provide a second post with your findings of
- the causes
- the three generations of activists
- the end of the RAF
- the similarities between current day's terro attacks and the RAF (similarities and differences)
again 250-300 words.
Class discussion and debate. Additional information:
Aust.BBC.
I would like to discuss the topic next week in class on Wednesday. Here is what Anna VA wrote about the topic last year:
"The RAF started out as the Baader-Meinhof group which was formed in 1970 in
Germany. It started out as a student protest movement in West Germany. There
were three successive incarnations of the organization, the "first generation"
consisted of the founders; Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof. The "second generation" RAF,
which operated in the mid to late 1970s after several former members of the Socialist Patients' Collective joined, and the
"third generation" RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 1990s.
The
group executed numerous operations, especially in the fall of 1977, which led to
a national crisis that became known as "German Autumn". Over the course of the 28
years the RAF was in business they were held responsible for 34 deaths and many
bombings and robberies.
The RAF was a left-wing group and was deemed to be
one of the most violent and prominent in Europe. There {should be: they} were known as a communist
and anti-imperialist group that engaged in urban guerilla resistance against the
fascist state of Germany."
Source: http://annavanalst.blogspot.com/2010/12/rote-armee-fraktion.html
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