From TELOS 144 (Fall 2008): Jeffrey Herf, "An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany"
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Jeffrey Herf's "An Age of Murder: Ideology and Terror in Germany" appears in TELOS 144 <http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=358> (Fall 2008). An excerpt follows below. Click here <http://www.telospress.com/main/pub/Herf_Telos144.pdf> to read the full article (in PDF format).
It is best to begin with the obvious. This is a series of lectures about murder, indeed about an age of murder.[1] Murders to be sure inspired by political ideas, but murders nevertheless. In all, the /Rote Armee Fraktion/ (Red Army Faction, hereafter the RAF) murdered thirty-four people and would have killed more had police and intelligence agencies not arrested them or prevented them from carrying out additional "actions."[2]