Gudrun Ensslin
Gudrun Ensslin was a German far-left terrorist and founder of the West German far-left militant group Red Army Faction.
Background
- Born in
- Bartholomä
- Educated at
- Freie Universität BerlinUniversity of TübingenKönigin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasium StuttgartUniversity of Education Schwaebisch Gmuend
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"Ahab makes a great impression on his first appearance in Moby Dick... And if either by birth or by circumstance something pathological was at work deep in his nature, this did not detract from his dra…"
"If we made a mistake, then we made a mistake ; after all, what's been missing in the European fight for socialism over the last 100 years, is the element of 'madness'"
"The people in our country and in America and in all West European countries, they have to gorge and guzzle so that they don't even start to think about the fact that we have something to do with Vietn…"
"Don’t blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn’t crocheting doilies either."
"We are brutal with ourselves...., and one of the consequences this could have is that we will be equally brutal and cold with everyone else. Perhaps that's exactly what I've been missing.... A stroke …"
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Timeline
1940
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