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...when Eichinger set out to make The Baader Meinhof Complex, about a group of 1960s radicals who carried out a 30-year campaign of bombings, killings, and kidnappings in Germany, it was clear that he would tell the tale with the subtlety of a sawed-off shotgun. "I wanted to make a movie about what they did," says Eichinger. "I'm not interested in the psychology, in the Freudian aspect of this at all. I am not trying to prove a point. I want to demystify them." (See pictures of animated movies, including Waltz with Bashir, the favorite for Best...
...More than 2.4 million Germans saw The Baader Meinhof Complex when it came out, to mixed reviews, last September, and now it's in the running for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars on Feb. 22. Directed by Uli Edel - who called the shots on Eichinger's first hit - the film focuses on West Germany in the '60s, when a group of largely middle class youth led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Enslin broke off from the massive anti-Vietnam War student protests and, calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany...
...Ulrike Meinhof, a RAF co-founder, told a German court in 1976 that her group's actions were directed against the U.S. military presence in the Federal Republic of Germany. U.S. bases in Germany were a lifeline to troops in Vietnam - U.S. bombers on their way to Hanoi made a stopover in Wiesbaden just as those same bases support U.S. troops in Iraq today. (See pictures of life returning to Iraq's streets...
...Stefan Aust, a former editor of the German magazine Der Spiegel and author of the Baader-Meinhof Complex, was friends with Meinhof and some of the other 1970s radicals before they became terrorists. Reflecting on the emergence of Islamic terrorism in Germany, Aust says: "There is an uncanny similarity to what happened back then." If you take terrorists today "and imagine them 30 years ago, they would probably have wound...
...class-struggle attacks. For all its viciousness, the RAF was not out to indiscriminately kill large numbers of civilians. But neither were its members the high-minded revolutionaries their admirers wanted them to be. Bettina Röhl, who recently wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Ulrike Meinhof, argues that Germany "has a problem" with the RAF. "Our society needs to stop turning them into stars," she told Time. Instead, she said, it needs to "treat the RAF rationally, as 'normal' criminals." For Röhl, younger Germans' inclination to be more interested in the "historical fact...