Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010

Baader-Meinhof Complex

The movie I though did a pretty good job at trying to protray what happened.  The Movie started with people protesting.  The people protesting broke the signs off their sign posts and started beating people. This shocked me because I started watching the movie without knowing what it was about.  It took me by surprise.  The movie in all was very confusing with the English subtitles and trying to watch the action as well.  But I did get that they were fighting for something and kept getting shut down anyway possible.  I feel that it was good to stand up for what they believed but took action in the wrong way. 

Rote Armee Fraktion

The Rote Armee Frakion was in 1970-1998.  It was part of a violent WWII wing.  It was founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof. It was responsible for thirty four deaths.  "Baader-Meinhof Gang" and "Baader-Meinhof Group" or just "Baader-Meinhof" are sometimes used as nicknames for the organization. "Through its bombs and manifestos the RAF confronted the state with opposition at a level many activists today might find difficult to imagine."


I feel like the raf is not really like todays terroism.  I think that yes we do have terrorism but not to the extent that the RAF went.  I think that the only act of terroism that we have had recently is 9/11.  All other terrism is not as public ad the Raf was. 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
http://www.germanguerilla.com/red-army-faction/index.html