Der Baader-Meinkof Kmoplex & Rote Armee Fraktion

Der Baader-Meinhof Kmoplex

The film Badder-Meinhof could have many different reviews by different viewers. Some would say this film was inspirational, others could say it was radical and not necessary to create into a movie. I personally found the film interesting, and thought it was a radical decision to put this real life experience,(with a movie twist) into a film. To see these “younger generation” rebelling against everything they grew up with and to take a stand and not let their voices be silenced, is almost inspiring. Of course in my own opinion they routes they took were some what radical, such as making bombs and placing them in different locations, example, the judges car. The fact that some of those women were willing to give up there children to make this “movement” heard. To be able to leave behind everything they knew to make sure they were able to make their “voices” heard. The things they choose to do got somewhat out of hand. The up-rise became almost unstoppable. The chairman knew that they needed to be stopped, and he at least found was to complete this task. The events that happened in this movie I feel are some what radical, I believe that the other generations should hear out the younger generation, but with violence, I think nothing would ever be solved.

Rote Armee Fraktion

The Rote Armee Fraktion, or otherwise known as the Red Army Faction, was developed by students that were fighting against perceived Nazism that they thought was in the German government and within the economy. Founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof in 1970.. The RAF fought against the war in Vietnam and social classes as well as Nazism.

The first generation supported themselves through bank robberies and engaged in terrorist bombings and arson, especially in West Germany corporations. They also kidnapped and assassinated prominent political and business people. This group began to go beyond West Germany and occasionally allied itself with the militant Palestinian groups.

The second generation came with the former members of the Socialist Patients’ collective. The third generation were attributed the actions that were between 1980s and 1990. The end of RAF, was announced by an eight-page letter that was faxed to the Reuters News agency declaring that the group was no more, that it had dissolved.

The similarities with this group and its actions to today’s terrorist attacks, would right away be the bombing. Similar to the actions of the RAF, today’s terrorist still result to bombing. Another similarity would be that each of these groups wants to “be heard”. They have some sort of plan or idea that they think would be better for people than what is happening.  One major difference though would be  that today, we do not know who these terrorist are, we can pin point countries at some points, but we do not know the face of the terrorist. Unlike the RAF, which there were able to identify the people behind the acts, today terrorist are everywhere, even here in our own country.