Jason Burke
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Yeah.
And and the paradox is that the US has been safe effectively from any further attack.
And so you know, the war on terror succeeded on that not inconsequential basis.
I mean that's not an insignificant thing.
Um but the costs
To
the world and i to the US itself are vast.
Thank you very much.
This is The Guardian.
I think you have to go quite broad to start with and look at that moment in the late 1960s across the whole of the developed world, in fact, across much of the global south as well.
And this is a moment of real mobilisation, militancy, activism, radicalism and a revolutionary project that was...
really reaching many many millions of people tens of millions possibly hundreds of millions of people now in West Germany you have a particular situation that leads to a particular form of violence if you like and to an extent its position on the front line of the Cold War but very much it's more it's about the historical experience of Germany and about young West Germans
now in their late teens or in their 20s, beginning to ask very serious, very difficult questions about the Nazi crimes that, in fact, many of their teachers, judges, senior politicians, sometimes even parents may have been involved in.
So you have this wave of agitation in West Germany in the mid to late 60s.
You have big protests on the streets.
what they would see is liberation struggles across the world so that would include the vietnamese against the americans the palestinians often causes in africa and out of all these protests came a radical fringe that decide that the rest haven't gone far enough and that the only answer is violence
Now, in this case, you had two young people, a 30-year-old English literature graduate called Gudrun Enslin, quite impressive organiser and a really steely, determined will.
You had her boyfriend, who was none of the above, a 24-year-old called Andreas Bader, who was a kind of art school dropout and never really done much in his life before.
but was something of a bragger and a charmer and good-looking.
The two fell in love and they decided they were going to commit a major arson attack on a department store really to sort of protest the American war in Vietnam.
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