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Today I'm joined by Joe from the Deeep Fried Friends podcast for the second of two episodes on the Rote Armee Fraktion aka the Red Army Faction  aka the Baader-Meinhof Gang. We examine this group through the lens of the film, the Baader Meinhof Complex. Joe walks us through the second half of the film where the RAF executes a series of increasingly alienating terrorist actions. 

We go over the various types of blowback this brought down on Germany and the Left. We discuss the second and third generations which were even more compromised and untethered from the workers and the masses than the first generation. We talk about the film's director and producer and their weird careers, and then get to the meat of how the RAF was undoubtedly manipulated by state actors on both sides.


Episode 2:

Baader Meinhof by Baader Meinhof (Luke Haines)

Ulrike’s Brain is Missing by Luke Haines

There's Gonna Be an Accident by Baader Meinhof (Luke Haines)

Back on the Farm by Baader Meinhof (Luke Haines)

Ulrike by Chumbawamba


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https://deepfriedfriends.podbean.com/

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Brendan Garcia

Any thoughts on the film Suspiria, which is set during the time of the RAF? I don’t feel like it’s explicit in the original film, but it’s very present in the remake.

Brendan Garcia

They’re both worth a watch. Both deeply weird and fucked up, in a good way. I think they do a good job of representing the occluded, subterranean evil in their institutions that the 60s student protests, and the RAF eventually were fighting against (i.e. Nazis installed at the base of ostensibly democratic, even progressive governments).

Rafał Gałczyński

This was really good! Two things. first, Bommi Baumann was a Stasi informer or, more precisely, he spilled his beans while he was being interrogated by Stasi after being caught on the run. Second, Rohveder assassination was covered in the German documentary series available on Netflix. The series puts forward a few conspiracy theories related to killings basically questioning the official narrative that it was really RAF. On the other hand, it is consistent with your theory that RAF was a sort of mercenary squad near the end of its existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Crime_(TV_series)