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  Baader-Meinhof Complex (Paperback) By (author) Stefan Aust

  Book rating: 04

  

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  Short Description for Baader-Meinhof ComplexTells the story of how a small group of young middle-class people, out of moral indignation about the Vietnam War and the injustices of capitalist society, turned to bombings, kidnappings and murder - thus resorting to flagrant immorality themselves.
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  • Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
  • Published: 06 November 2008
  • Format: Paperback 480 pages
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  • Categories: Terrorism, Armed Struggle | European History
  • ISBN 13: 9781847920454 ISBN 10: 1847920454
  • Sales rank: 67,588

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Reviews for Baader-Meinhof Complex

• Huge gaping holes in the storyBook rating: 4

  I'm currently reading through this. My assessment so far is that it is a reasonably good account of what happened and descriptive. However, there are some very interesting leads that obviously the author did not chase up that any good investigative journalist would of. On top of that he comes to some wrong conclusions in my opinion. All the indications were that Ulrike didn't commit suicide but was murdered by the State yet the author somehow, comes to the opposite conclusion. There are several occasions where big alarm bells for me were ringing during his explanations. Even the guns being smuggled in story seems very far fetched. Given that a prisoner of this level would be in chains to and from the court room, I question the authors explanation of the suicide by guns being smuggled in for the prisoners. There are huge gaping holes in the story that need plugging but Stefan Aust seems to gloss over them.
  
  The author also didn't go much into Communist theories and clearly lacks a strong grasp of it. One minute he's calling them Maoists, next they're following Gramsci or Lenin. Its as if he didn't really know where the RAF stood politically and does not try and spell it out to the reader just what their theoretical ideology actually was at the time. by Andrew Parnell

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