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Terror and Democracy in West Germany (Hardcover, New)
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Terror and Democracy in West Germany (Hardcover, New)
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In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The
militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that
the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After
1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's
viability and fears of authoritarian state power with a 'militant
democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment
to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions
brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy
from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse
sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of
emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from
the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of
terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a
stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence
as part of everyday politics.
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