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It's part 2 of our 4-part series on the Red Army Faction, in which Tom takes the lead to explain to Joe the story of 1960s German left-wing militants, their eventual downfall, and--in this episode--something you might describe as 'the world's least enthusiastic hunger striker.'

Sources:

The Red Army Faction. A Documentary History. Volume I: Projectiles for the People.

Margrit Schiller. Remembering The Armed Struggle. My Time With the Red Army Faction.

Stefan Aust. The Baader Meinhof Complex

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Mitch Guerrerio

Does the three episode dump mean something woogity has happened? Like some sort of Armenian krypteia has come for our boy

Matt

“We know you’re out of practice and don’t know how to do basically anything the Armenian army does, you’re still better at most of this than our soldiers, so it’s your turn, man.”

F. Dinkleberry

A quick correction: Franz Josef Strauß was the leader of the Christian Social union, the Bavarian (and even more conservative) version of the Christian Democrats, not of the Social Democrats like Tom said.

Michael Davies

On there being so many orphans moving into adulthood, etc. around Germany in 1960, a lot were the kids that got abandoned because they were products of rape in the aftermath of the war. So there was some serious lot messed up psychology going on

Noblese Oblahaj

Driving a Mercedes to the revolution is a very Hasan energy

Jonas Schwammberger

Sure, but you can't tell the difference between them nowadays, so I let this slide. If there ever was a Jack Johnson vs John Jackson, its the modern SPD vs CDU/CSU.

It's Kay!

Does the episode end cut off about 5-10 seconds short for anyone else? "Until next time, complain to your terrorist leader you can't ha-"?

Jonas Schwammberger

BTW: Bourgeois cunt I would re-translate as "Bourgeois Fotze". Fotze is pronounced with a hard F and hard Z. Its not a "zee", its a "ZETTTTT". The emphasis of Fotze is on the tz, so pronounce it as FFFo-TTTZZZeeeee. Fotze is probably as bad of a word as cunt in America.

TheLoveWizard

Hearing a bug died in your vape made me gag almost as much as the Khmer Rogue series did. Almost.

Jim Kroft

ah yes Lenin the famously young revolutionary

RiverStyx

Almost all the episodes I've heard so far, cuts out a few seconds too soon. Don't know why.

Andreas Lermen

Ok, serious mistake. Franz Josef Strauß was a CSU politician, they have nothing to do with social democrats. It's the Bavarian version of the CDU and extrem conservatives. The kind of people, that only agree, that woman have the right to vote, if they went to church on Sundays and vote what their husbands have told them.

RiverStyx

Tom, half three is not 3.30, it's 2.30. The "half "-part, kind of implies "less then" you know. 😉 I don't get why you'd ever use that am/pm bullshit anyway. So confusing and stupid. 14.30 - there you go, clear as day! 😎

Karl Childers

ah yes am/pm is confusing but half 3 = 2:30, obviously

Brandon P

I get irrationally happy whenever Tom uses perfect past-tense.

Hispanic pixie dream girl

Bourgeoise C*nt in German is bürgerliche Fotze (and I feel filthy just having typed that)

RiverStyx

Yes, obviously. 😉 A half three, can't be more then three, duh. I'm mostly kidding, it's just that I always forget which is which with the am/pm thing, as it isn't part of my daily life. But I truly find it more logical to use a clock with 24hours, then you always know for sure exactly what you're talking about. There's a reason the military started using it you know. 😉 Don't get me started on the whole inch thing. Who tho hell measures things in 2.54cm increments?! 😄 The metric system rules! 🤘😝

Drinkmilf

How dare you charge me $5 to listen to this early. Capitalist dogs!!!!

procint

The one single thing I remember being taught in high school that actually has value IRL was "only break one law at a time."