Death in the Shape of a Young Girl : Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction / / Patricia Melzer.
In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and pol...
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