The Baader-Meinhoff group began its first protest in peaceful ways of protesting the diplomat. Once acts of violence was used upon them, and with no help or safety from the police, the group became more "violent" and angry. They then resulted to acting with violence themselves. They started small by bombing property, but tried to be sure that no people were hurt. They planned these placings of the bombs quite carefully. They soon became more careless and started putting bombs in places where people were.
In the beginning of the movie the group was easier to sympathize with, they were a group banning together for a cause that was not only within their lifes" but alson world wide. They were willing to use force-but not so far as to kill people especially innocent people Toward the end of the movie the generation that was taking over the "cause" used force not to go for a cause, for they really knew not of what they were fighting for. They fought and used weapons to only allow these first put in jain to come out, they used more force than necessary and ended up killing many people. This group was hard to sympathize with for they knew not of what they were fighting for, and yet they kept going and creating more devastation and violence then they should.
In my view the rudeness displayed by Andreas Baader played a key role in the goups dynamics. His "rudeness" kept everyone on one page. It made sure that everyone was going to understand why they were there and that they had a cause to keep fighting for. He kept people in the "line" and made sure they did not "chicken out", everyone was kept in the group and therefore the same mindset.
Using force or violent acts to persuade people that your cause is right, is not always the answer. Though if another acted violent upon you, who was going about peacefully, then violence is something that you would almost need to fall back upon. I know that you can't fight fire with fire, but in the case of violent acts, sometimes fighting back with strong intentions, but not to kill is what is necessary.
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