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Blood and Rage_ A Cultural History of Terrorism - Michael Burleigh [359]

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White Kids: The Red Brigades and the Red Army Faction

1 Leonard Weinberg, ‘Violent Life: Left-wing and Right-wing Terrorism in Italy’ in Peter Merkl (ed.), Political Violence and Terror. Motifs and Motivations (Berkeley 1986) pp. 147-8

2 Paul Ginsburg, A History of Contemporary Italy 1943-1980 (London 1990) pp. 354ff.

3 Alison Jamieson, The Heart Attacked. Terrorism and Conflict in the Italian State (London 1989) pp. 19-21 for these statistics. These obviously exclude casualties from later terrorist attacks, which have continued sporadically into the early 2000s

4 Alberto Ronchey, ‘Guns and Grey Matter: Terrorism in Italy’ Foreign Affairs (1979) 57, p. 930

5 Stefan Wisniewski, Wir waren so unheimlich konsequent … Ein Gespräch zur Geschichte der RAF (Berlin 2003) P. 17

6 Raimondo Catanzaro, ‘Subjective Experience and Objective Reality: An Account of Violence in the Words of its Protagonists’ in Catanzaro (ed.), The Red Brigades and Left-wing Terrorism in Italy (London 1991) p. 184

7 Richard Drake, The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy (Bloomington, Indiana 1989) p. 96

8 Salvatore Veca, ‘Sixty-eight: Ideas, Politics, Culture’ in Omar Calabrese (ed.), Modern Italy. Images and History of a National Identity (Milan 1985) vol. 4 p. 81

9 Mario Moretti, Brigate Rosse. Eine italienische Geschichte (Berlin 2006) pp. 24-34

10 Mara Cagol, Una donna nelle prime Brigate Rosse (Venice 1980) pp. 119-20

11 Ibid., p. 64

12 Alberto Franceschini, Mara, Renato e io. Storia dei fondatori delle BR (Milan 1988) p. 204

13 Moretti, Brigate Rosse p. 49

14 Adriana Faranda interviewed in Jamieson, The Heart Attacked p. 271

15 Catanzaro, ‘Subjective Experience and Objective Reality: An Account of Violence in the Words of its Protagonists’ p. 184

16 Moretti, Brigate Rosse pp. 111-13

17 Jamieson, The Heart Attacked p. 157

18 Patrizio Peci, Io l’infame (Milan 1983) pp. 81-106

19 Ibid., p. 63

20 Ibid., pp. 14-15

21 Ibid., p. 195

22 Rino Genova, Missione antiterrorismo (Milan 1985) p. 150

23 Richard Drake, The Aldo Moro Murder Case (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1995) is admirably tough-minded in refuting all the conspiracy charges that have enveloped the facts of the Moro case

24 Dennis Bark and David Gress, A History of West Germany. Democracy and its Discontents 1963-1988 (Oxford 1989) vol. 2 pp. 120-21

25 Butz Peters, Tödlicher Irrtum. Die Geschichte der RAF (Frankfurt am Main 2006) pp. 81-4

26 Wolfgang Kraushaar, ‘Antizionismus als trojanisches Pferd. Zur antisemitischen Dimension in den Kooperation von Tupermaros West-Berlin, RAF und RZ mit den Palästinensern’ in Kraushaar (ed.), Die RAF und der linke Terrorismus (Hamburg 2006) vol. 1 pp. 676ff. This line is still fashionable among such former salon Marxists as New York University’s self-regarding Tony Judt and his attempts to construe himself as a martyr to the likes of Abraham Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League

27 Bommi Baumann, Wie alles anfing (Munich 1979)

28 See especially Klaus Stern and Jörg Herrmann, Andreas Baader. Das Leben eines Staatsfeindes (Munich 2007)

29 Wolfgang Kraushaar, ‘Rudi Dutschke und der bewaffnete Kampf’ in Kraushaar (ed.), Die RAF vol. 1 pp. 222-5; and Kraushaar, Karen Wieland and Jan Philipp Reemsta, Rudi Dutschke, Andreas Baader und die RAF (Hamburg 2005)

30 Herfried Münkler, ‘Sehnsucht nach dem Ausnahmezustand. Die Faszination des Untergrunds und ihre Demontage durch die Strategie des Terrors’ in Kraushaar (ed.), Die RAF vol. 2 pp. 1220-21

31 Susanne Bressen and Martin Jander, ‘Gudrun Ensslin’ in Kraushaar (ed.), Die RAF vol. 1 p. 428

32 Martin Jander, ‘Horst Mahler’ in Kraushaar (ed.), Die RAF vol. 1 p. 381

33 The best biography of her is Alois Prinz, Lieber wütend als traurig. Die Lebensgeschichte der Ulrike Meinhof (Weinheim 2003)

34 Stefan Aust, Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex (Hamburg 1998) p. 107

35 Ibid., pp. 155-6

36 Wisniewski, Wir waren so unheimlich konsequent p. 38

37 Hans Josef Horchem, ‘The Decline of the Red Army Faction

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