Jason Burke
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219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Jason Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and policemen start dying.
And then some of their own people start dying.
And that moves everything into a new place.
They bomb a right-wing media organisation, cause significant casualties.
They're bombing US installations, military installations.
Similarly, attacks on police.
And the reaction is huge within West Germany, possibly too huge.
I mean, it may have been a semi-hysterical reaction,
given the actual threat they pose.
But, you know, you've got roadblocks going up everywhere, you've got police everywhere, you've got wanted posters.
I mean, it is the biggest crisis in West German democracy since the war, really.
There's a lot of sympathy for these kind of activists at the beginning.
It's when the RAF start using violence to kill people and people start dying that a lot of formerly sympathetic people on the left decide they've gone way too far.
And that happens quite fast.
It goes wrong after about a couple of years and they get caught successively, the main three leaders, so...
Ulrike Meinhof, very interestingly, is betrayed by a left-wing teacher who is asked to shelter a couple of unidentified individuals.
He has a pretty good idea of who they will be and he makes that phone call that means that eventually the police turn up and they pick up Ulrike Meinhof.
Gudrun Enslin is caught when she's trying to buy some new clothes for a disguise and leaves her handgun in her jacket pocket when she goes into a changing room and the shop assistant picks up the jacket and thinks, that is heavy.
And Bader is caught when he is driving the wrong way down a street at 4 a.m.
in a stolen Porsche Targa, gets noticed.
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