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...Historians of the RAF say that by the time Klar and Mohnhaupt assumed their prominent roles in the group, the founders' ideals had become secondary to all-out war on the state. "Once [Klar] started shooting," recalled one acquaintance recently to the weekly Der Spiegel, "he couldn't stop until the magazine was empty." For a generation of Germans who survived World War II, the violence of those years awakened old traumas. "The RAF is history, thank God," says Butz Peters, a Berlin lawyer who has written several books on the group. "But the emotions associated with it - the powerlessness...
...Family members of the RAF's 34 victims, including Schleyer's widow, have joined conservative politicians in urging the President to reject Klar's application. Some want Mohnhaupt kept in jail, too. Markus Söder, general secretary of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats, said that releasing the prisoners would be a "slap in the face" for the victims and their relatives. A recent poll conducted by the Bonn-based firm Omniquest found 65% of Germans against Klar being granted early parole; the proportion rose to 73% among Germans aged...
...even be a historic imperative. Germany has so far been spared a direct attack by the new generation of Islamic terrorists, but it cannot avoid the universal struggle to balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available...
...foreign companies that invest more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector, and last week Royal Dutch Shell admitted that could put in jeopardy its projected $10 billion investment in an Iranian gas field in cooperation with Spain's Repsol. Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer said, "I would like to emphasize that we have here quite a dilemma. This is Iran. They are the number two in oil and gas reserves in the world.... But we have all the short-term political concerns...
...There is a certain kind of laughing that brings knowledge and understanding," Levy said. Not all reviews have been damning. Writing in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, critic Daniel Haas praised Levy for "dar[ing] the outrageous.... The film is not only about Hitler but about the way in which we are dealing with the brown terror," he said. In fact, after more than a half century of struggling with Hitler's calamitous legacy, Germans do appear to be taking a slightly less tortured view of their past. Downfall, a serious treatment of Hitler's last days, appeared in cinemas...