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Hitler's children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang Hardcover – 1977


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  • Hardcover: 322 pages
  • Publisher: Lippincott; 1st edition (1977)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 2213004919
  • ISBN-13: 978-2213004914
  • ASIN: 0397011539
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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Jillian Becker's first three books were novels. She has also written short stories and articles, published on both sides of the Atlantic. She left Britain in 2007 to be near most of her children and grandchildren in California, where she now lives. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful By Gary Selikow on September 3, 2011
Format: Paperback
This book was written in 1977 about the German Communist terrorist organization called the Red Army Faction, or more popularly the Baader Meinhof gang, which waged a reign of terror across Germany in the 1970s and also the Lufthansa 181 Somalia hijacking in 1977, together with Palestinian terrorists who found out that three women on the airplane were Jewish and singled them , made them kneel down and kicked and beat them. Their terrorist activities in Germany including a series of shooting of police officers and civilians and some high profile kidnappings and executions.
The BMG trained in various Arab countries and while they claimed they were fighting Fascism, in reality they aimed to overthrow the tolerant liberal democracy respectful of human rights in West Germany and replace it it with another totalitarian regime such as East Germany or the Soviet Union which they fully identified with. Ulrike Meinhof, one of the gang's most ruthless ringleaders wrote a piece in the far left newspaper published by the group when they belonged to the radical student movement the SDS and in it she praised the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia-so much for their professed pacifism and hatred of 'fascism'
Meinhof and the others also exhibited a violent anti-Zionism which is of course a form Jew-hatred targeting the Jewish State and it's Jewish population-and the author of this book recognizes the lie that aims to distinguish Jew-hatred from Israel-hatred as the vile sophistry that it is. They were in this Jew-hatred akin to their Nazi forefathers and again their opposition to 'fascism; s a slogan used by leftwing totalitarians which is ironic as they favour methods and systems which so resemble the 'fascism' and Nazism they so virulently claim to hate.
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19 of 27 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on November 21, 1998
Format: Paperback
For 20 years this book has been seen as the definitve account of the terrorist scare in 1970s Germany. But time has not been kind. Jillian Becker's otherwise brilliant biography always suffered from her own politics; now with hindsight it's hard to see where the truth ends and fiction begins. The first section of Becker's book, which covers the genesis of the Red Army Faction in the late 1960s is quite superb. There is extensive, if slightly innacurate, biographical material on the leaders, and a genuine attempt to explain why the peaceful radical student movement became a radical terrorist one. But it's when she turns her attention to the RAF itself that the cracks begin to appear. For instance, Becker repeats with almost insulting frequency the official government line that the RAF prisoners were not subject to intense and deliberate solitary confinement. They were. Anyone who's read Stefan Aust's work 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' (the translation is now sadly out of print) will know this to be the case. Becker glosses over the whole imprisonment and trial of the gang, preferring instead to paint them as rowdy youths who were getting just what they deserved. Some of her comments defy belief. Unfortunately, since English-language books on the RAF are few and far between Jillan Becker has become the most comprehensive source on the gang by default. And I'm not denying that her book makes an excellent secondary source. Just be sure to take some of her more extreme comments with a pinch of salt.
Tony Mullen, London, United Kingdom, 21.11.98
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on August 21, 2001
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This book should be returned to print. Ms. Becker's book is very well documented and is aided greatly by the fact that she doesn't buy into any romantic notions of the RAF's bravery, commitment, or moral sensitivity. She does point out that the early student protests in Germany had just cause and she does take the Berlin police to task for shooting Benno Ohnesorg and for exonerating the policeman responsible ("It was a whitewash.").
A previous reviewer writes: "Even someone wholly against violence, as I am, will empathize with the bravery and idealism of those who risk extermination in support of a cause." Would he (or she)make the same observation about Timothy McVeigh? Or the members of the Manson Family? The only difference between McVeigh and the Unabomber is political philosophy. What is brave about planting a bomb in a car or a building where innocent people can get killed? Did any of these groups or people ever once directly engage soldiers or even the police?
At one point in the notes at the back of this book, Ms. Becker makes an observation that defines these groups and fashionable leftism in a nutshell: "...postwar middle class children in the prosperous societies which alone can afford these 'hip' politics were educated to believe in compassion as a sentiment rather than justice as a principle."
Some of the writing is a little sloppy and one does occasionally wish Ms. Becker would keep her opinions a little more in the background--she was, perhaps, reacting to the hip cachet that groups like the RAF had (and still have) among the affluent left intelligentsia.
Try to pick up the 1978 edition, which has some up-to-date info about later RAF actions and the suicides of the leaders. Read this book and your ideas about what's going on in places like Seattle and Genoa will change a little.
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