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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 19, 1977 15

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The story of the Baeder-
Meinhof terrorist gang in
Germany during the early
70's is so overwhelming
that one still wonders how
and why it all began. While
the book is full of details,
the motivating forces are
not adequately explained.
One has to read between
the lines — it is like trying
to obtain a picture of the
forest by focusing on the
trees.
"Hitler's Children" by Jul-
/
ian Becker • (Lippincott), is
''----zbasically the story of a left-
ist Marxist group, represent-
ing frustrated lives, that
sprang up ostensibly in the
late 60's in response to the
Vietnam War, that distin-
guished itself in its ruthless-
ness, sadism, reckless mur-
der, all with the pretense of
altruism and idealism.
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thor apparently links the
reckless acts of this gang to
the amoral climate of Hit-
lerism. Indeed, there is an
implied connection between
the children born in the 30's
and raised in the Hitler era
and the adult desperados
who terrorized many in-
nocent people for no ration-
al reason other than lust for
power.
The common origin of the
guerilla movement and that
of National Socialism lay in
the frustration of the
middle class—in accepting
the principle that the end
justifies the means, and the
principle of author-
itarianism that the gang
leader as the new Fuhrer
may execute its own mem-
bers for disobedience and
dissention.
The connection with the
PLO terror activities is
more than the affinity for
Marxism. The antagonism
to the Jews must have been
imbibed with their mother's
milk, and any guilt feelings
were dismissed by claims
that the genocide activity of
the Hitler era was done by
"the fascist pigs."
It hardly occurred to
them that they were indeed
imitating their author-
itarian predecessors, under
a different disguise or
label. The best example
was at Entebbe, Uganda,
when this terrorist gang sep-
arated the Jewish from the
non-Jewish passengers.
When one of the hostages re-
minded them the procedure
Was similar to Hitler's, the
terrorist replied: "I am not
a Nazi; I am an anti-fas-
cist." One cannot escape
the underlying similarity.
Another illustration is the
avowed anti-Zionism which
is in essence anti-Semitism
a la Hitler. _

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The guerilla training in
Jordan with the Palesti-
nians, and Meinhof's deter-
mination to send her two
little girls to live in a Pales-
tine refugee camp is more
than coincidental parallel
Marxism. It was this mas-
ked anti-Semitism that per-
meated most of the off-
spring of the Nazi gener-
ation, some of whom car-
ried their virus to Cairo,
Beirut, and the centers of
South America.
The author clearly shows
the discrepancy between
the real motivating forces
and the pretense of al-
truism — the contrast be-
tween identification with
the poor and the down-
trodden, and the terrorists'
insatiable desire for money,
wealth and luxury.
- In the case of Meinhof,
the so-called Queen of the

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Guerillas, it was evident
that she changed "radi-
cally" from a New Leftist
to an outlaw bank robber
and sadistic murderer. She
even ignored the care of
her two daughters when her
husband left her for another
woman. With the pretense
of "nothing personal," she
embarked upon an all-out
vicious attack against him
on political grounds, thus
confirming the saying
"There is no greater fury
than a woman scorned".

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As stated above, despite
the voluminous narratives
of names, places and
events this book is short on
psychological insight. Must
we then explain it on the
basis that they were Hit-
ler's children? The title sug-
gests that this was the au-
thor's intent.

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but Hoffenberg works the
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an integral part of the
story, rather than an edi-
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survival of ordeals that
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