[Book Note] Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction: Performing Terrorism

[bimo]

Leith Passmore, Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction: Performing Terrorism, Palgrave MacMillan, New York 2011.

Pretty fascinating and at times downright chilling analysis of Ulrike Meinhof's writings, retracing her transition from left-wing journalist into one of Germany's most high-profile terrorists of the early 1970s. As the Amazon.com book

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[selenak]

Have you read Bettina Röhl's So macht Kommunismus Spaß" about her parents? Fascinating and uncomfortable, and deeply angry with both her mother and father. This article, a conversation between Bettina Röhl and psychologist Margarete Mitscherlich, gives you a good idea of why beyond the obvious.

[bimo]

Lots of thanks for pointing those out to me! I've just begun reading up on the topic (so far my knowledge about Meinhof/RAF has been restricted to just the basic historical key events and dates), so I wasn't familiar with either of the texts.