Premium Episode 33: Paranoiac Films 4: the Baader-Meinhof Complex pt. 2, or, the Instrumentalization of Far Left Terrorism by State Actors?, feat. Joe

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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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