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Germany's RAF: A Life in the Shadow of Left-Wing Extremist Terrorism
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Germany's RAF: A Life in the Shadow of Left-Wing Extremist Terrorism

26 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Sabine, Clais and Orm were children when their fathers were murdered by the Rote Armee Fraktion, the far-left German terrorist group that waged a campaign of assassinations and bombings through the 1970s and 80s. This film skips past the well-known victims, Hanns Martin Schleyer and Alfred Herrhausen, whose deaths are still marked in German memory, and turns instead to the police officers, drivers, and government employees killed alongside them, and to the children they left behind, some as young as two. Fifty years after the first RAF trial opened in May 1975, the three now-adult children speak on camera about growing up marked by a killing they barely understood at the time, and about the emotional scars that never fully closed. Interviews carry the film rather than archival spectacle, and the RAF's ideology and operations stay in the background, present only as the force that shaped these three lives. The focus stays fixed on grief and its long aftermath rather than on the perpetrators.