Jason Burke
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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and that leads to shootout but he gets wounded and he gets picked up then and and that's the end of the active on the street outside prison role of the leadership the the main three leaders Ulrike Meinhof commits suicide in prison in 76
What then happens is you have a four- to five-year period where you have a new generation, the second generation of the Red Army faction, who are basically dedicated to effectively the use of violence, terrorism, to get their leaders out of prison.
in 77 after a spectacular few months in one instance particularly extraordinary west germans when a plane was hijacked which really shocked people that all fails the government don't make any concessions and in 77
Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader kill themselves.
And the second generation then kind of fragments and splinters.
But the third generation is really the kind of long, long, long tail of what the earlier generations were doing.
I mean, it was much, much less effective for fewer people involved.
By that stage, the struggle was over, in inverted commas.
And most importantly...
People had moved on.
Nobody's calling for revolution any longer.
It sounded like an anachronism, even by the early 80s.
People had moved on to other causes, whether it was for specific identity groups, asking for specific things, whether it was environmentalism, the campaign against nuclear weapons was very big, except for people like Daniel Kletter, who carried on, and there were a few of them.
Again, the kind of extremist fringe of an extremist fringe of a broader movement.
I don't think so.
I mean, I think they did an enormous harm to the progressive cause.
And what did win major reforms on things like divorce and abortion rights and much tougher look at the role in the Second World War of many senior officials and that sort of thing was with the bigger protests and the fact that, you know, tens of millions of
West Germans wanted those reforms and democracy functioned.
So Heinrich Bohr, the brilliant German novelist spoke about, it was a conflict of six against 60 million, the six being the kind of RAF.
And I think he's saying something quite profound there in that he was attacked for it, for being too sympathetic.
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