They did. Worked through an East German (Stasi supported) publication known as Konkrete.
This is off the top of my head but in the 70’s there was a lot on the BMG and East German connections. Should be on the internet.
Many were trained in east German, PLO, PFLP and Cuban camps.
>Later on, when Mahler was in prison for bank robberies and assisting a prison escape, Gerhard Schröder, Germany’s future chancellor, became his lawyer.
I think Schröder’s possible ties to the Stasi/KGB should also be looked into. He directed billions to Russian benefit as a chancellor, killed the Nabucco gas pipeline and championed Russian North Stream and accepted a high paying post in Russia’s Gazprom board weeks after losing his re-election.
I see many similarities between the RAF and the Antifa.
Both seem to have connections with radical islam.
Both used made up reasons to justify their actions.
Both were very political in purpose.
Both were very dangerous.
Well sure, commie scum is commie scum.
Funny how much the US gets maligned for its actions during the Cold War, but the soviets get off with a slap on the wrist. Keep guzzling Russian gas and spreading the anti-America gospel Merkel, those Poles seem pretty keen on getting a closer relationship with us.
There’s no “may have” to it.
Never heard of this guy.
If being a Stasi informant is big news, why isn’t Merkel actually being in the Stasi not an issue.
“the most paradoxical and notorious figures in modern German history: a social democrat lawyer turned leftwing terrorist who went to prison, turned to Maoism and then came out as a far-right nationalist.”
Nope. Not paradoxical at all. Behold!:
- a social democrat lawyer = Leftwinger.
- turned leftwing terrorist = Leftwinger.
- turned to Maoism = Leftwinger.
- “far-right nationalist” = Leftwinger in Europe. The only real “far right” in Europe are monarchists. When the media in Europe call you “far right” in Europe you’re a socialist of some kind who also believes in nationalism, hence National Socialism.
In other words, the only change in his political views in 50 years are that he is now more nationalistic than he used to be. That’s it.
Google “Operation Gladio”.
And this only took them thirty years to figure out?
When you go back and examine the core of the RAF...very few lasted more than five to seven years, then they were ‘retired’ or simply disappeared (probably given a new ID). By the early 1990s...they were on the fourth generation, and public appeal was going fast. It’s odd how the timing of the Wall coming down, and the RAF almost fit perfectly together.
If you ask me...no one in the German government really wants to go far into this topic. Journalists might be curious and ask stupid questions, but public interest at this point is marginally existing. No one cares.