CINEMA: ‘The Baader Meinhof Complex’ – film whitewashes notorious terrorist gang*

Len Phillips reviews the new German film, The Baader Meinhof Complex (rated MA 15+, with English subtitles).Let us begin with a quiz. The Baader-Meinhof Gang was a terrorist group that, during the 1960s and 1970s, blew up buildings across West Germany causing many deaths. They assassinated politicians, judges and, famously, the head of the German Employers Federation. They poisoned political life, and this in a country that was divided into its free democratic half on one side of the Iron Curtai…

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