Baader Meinhof Complex Essay

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The Baader Meinhof Complex starts off introducing you to Ulrike Meinhoff, who is a very respected German journalist. At the beginning, in roughly the late 1960s, she is reading off an article that she wrote about the abuse and unlawfulness of the Iranian government. When the Shah of Persia comes to Berlin, there are crowds of rioters outside protesting. The Iranian police force violently beat the innocent protestors and left one man dead. Andreas Baader is the leader of all the revolutions and uprising. Him and his group of followers named themselves The Red Army Faction (RAF). There uprisings start with setting a department store on fire with home made bombs. Baader gets some help from another activist, Gurdrun Ensslin. Rudi Dutschke …show more content…

At times it was sort of confusing because the subtitles wouldn’t line up with the scenes perfectly, but it didn’t totally throw off the movie. Also, I thought it was really cool to see Bruno Ganz in this movie as well. He played Hitler in The Downfall and then Horst Herold in this movie. The movie really shows how brutal and dark that period was in German history. The devastating bomb attacks showed everyone how fragile the German democracy was. The Baader Meinhof Complex was trying to create a more human society by using inhuman means that only ended up creating more horror, fighting and murder. Over the course of their objective, I feel like the members of the group lost sight on what their initial goal was. I think that they slowly lost their own humanity. I think this film was very instructive and worthwhile. It definitely gave a different approach and look at what had happened in Germany in the late 1960s and 1970s. The movie really showed how much violence and hate was running through the world at that time. Although the group was never larger than around 60 people, they had major impacts on the German

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