Hi; I`m mostly lurking on LJ (here for fic recs and all things Who) but this topic is something I feel the need to delurk ;-)
I was to young back then to actually remember it but as I`m from Karlsruhe and my parents are from that generation and where into all that `68 ideology complete with demonstrations and everything they at least knew people who knew some of the RAF members.
What I do know is that they had connections with the peace movement that became the Green Party (when they first participated at the Bundestagswahl we actually had an election party in our house).
But the RAF and those terrorist attacks kind of are for us what the Third Reich was for them an their parents: something you don`t really talk about.
I only found out about there having been terrorists in that time in secondary school where it was discussed quite often (most of my teachers where of that generation too). The only first hand account I have is my grandma telling off one of them (can´t remember her name but is was the one they caught in the GDR after the wall came down) in an Eiscafe on Kaiserstrasse after she made deragotary remark about my uncle (both mentally and physically handicapped) that according to her went on to be a political rant as well (knowing my grandma it was probably true).
I have seen parts of "Das Todesspiel" but unfortunately not all of it and was very impressed how it showed the victims side without going into what these days can only be called "US-style" propaganda.
I want to watch it again as a companion to the movie (whose theatrical trailer didn`t impress me either) especially since I was raised with a mild sympathy for the RAF side anyway ( only stuff like the "Schleyer-Halle" being named after a bad man which I sincerely hope was ac omment about his Nazi past and not an endorsement of terrorist activities I'm pretty sure it wasn`t something my parents told me....perhaps one of their friends...).
Thanks for this ver5y interesting look at this time from todays perspective. I think I`m going to talk to my parents about it again, perhaps over 30 years are enough time to talk about such traumatic loss of innocence that it must have been.....
I hope you don`t mind me delurking with such a long comment.
Also do you mind if I friend you? I`m mostly lurking due to a lack of time but apart from fic and recs i find many of your other topics and how you write about them fascinating.
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I`m mostly lurking on LJ (here for fic recs and all things Who) but this topic is something I feel the need to delurk ;-)
I was to young back then to actually remember it but as I`m from Karlsruhe and my parents are from that generation and where into all that `68 ideology complete with demonstrations and everything they at least knew people who knew some of the RAF members.
What I do know is that they had connections with the peace movement that became the Green Party (when they first participated at the Bundestagswahl we actually had an election party in our house).
But the RAF and those terrorist attacks kind of are for us what the Third Reich was for them an their parents: something you don`t really talk about.
I only found out about there having been terrorists in that time in secondary school where it was discussed quite often (most of my teachers where of that generation too).
The only first hand account I have is my grandma telling off one of them (can´t remember her name but is was the one they caught in the GDR after the wall came down) in an Eiscafe on Kaiserstrasse after she made deragotary remark about my uncle (both mentally and physically handicapped) that according to her went on to be a political rant as well (knowing my grandma it was probably true).
I have seen parts of "Das Todesspiel" but unfortunately not all of it and was very impressed how it showed the victims side without going into what these days can only be called "US-style" propaganda.
I want to watch it again as a companion to the movie (whose theatrical trailer didn`t impress me either) especially since I was raised with a mild sympathy for the RAF side anyway ( only stuff like the "Schleyer-Halle" being named after a bad man which I sincerely hope was ac omment about his Nazi past and not an endorsement of terrorist activities I'm pretty sure it wasn`t something my parents told me....perhaps one of their friends...).
Thanks for this ver5y interesting look at this time from todays perspective. I think I`m going to talk to my parents about it again, perhaps over 30 years are enough time to talk about such traumatic loss of innocence that it must have been.....
I hope you don`t mind me delurking with such a long comment.
Also do you mind if I friend you? I`m mostly lurking due to a lack of time but apart from fic and recs i find many of your other topics and how you write about them fascinating.