Bernd Eichinger, who wrote and produced Downfall, is the force behind the film version of another German trauma,The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, ...

It’s two decades after the end of World War II, and West Germany is in turmoil. As elsewhere, charges of American imperialism are a flashpoint for student protests: Between the Vietnam War, America’s ...

Have you ever learned a new word only to start hearing that word used everywhere? Science has a name for this, and it's more ...

Fifty years ago a 35-year-old journalist from Oldenburg in Saxony named Ulrike Meinhof authored a manifesto setting out the political aims and ideology of a group she had helped to establish. It ...

THE PSYCHOLOGY of the Red Army Faction terrorists who wreaked havoc in the 1970s was explored in three contemplative German movies released between 1979 and 1986: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Third ...

FILM:Germans have reacted angrily to The Baader Meinhof Complex, a new film dramatising the group's violent terrorist campaign. Derek Scallyreports from Berlin WHEN IT COMES TO selling movie tickets, ...

Bernd Eichinger, who wrote and produced Downfall, is the force behind the film version of another German trauma, The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, ...

MUNICH — This year’s German contender for the best foreign-language film Oscar may have been intended, like the 2007 Oscar winner “The Lives of Others,” to help Germans come to terms with their recent ...

An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof ...

In the current, seemingly intractable phase of political terrorism, it behoves us to look back on and learn from similar waves of violent protest. Joseph Conrad's classic works of psychological and ...