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German Article: 9. November 1969: Das abgespaltene Attentat

A translated synposis about the presentation of Kraushaar’s book:
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30.06.2005

Thirty-six years ago a bomb was laid in the Jewish Community Centre in Berlin. Although it didn’t explode, the perpetrators later said it did, referring to the huge stir caused by its discovery the following morning. Two days ago Wolfgang Kraushaar of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research named the hitherto unidentified perpetrators and members of the “Kommune 1″: the man who planted the bomb Albert Fichter and the brains behind the operation Dieter Kunzelmann. Kraushaar revealed the information at the presention of his book “The Bomb in the Jewish Community Centre”, which will be published shortly. Volker Breidecker was there, and comments that paradoxically the 68er generation’s collective suppression of National Socialism has proved more enduring than their revolutionary movement. “Now, 36 years later, the alarm has gone off. An oppressive mood reigned in the seminar room of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt… Despite the heavy summer air, the details were chilling. Micha Brumlik, director of the institute, said he was ‘extremely depressed’ by this new chapter in the history of left wing anti-Semitism. Kraushaar not only visited the perpetrators and named the main culprit, he also illuminated what lay behind of the attack: the opening act of German terrorism was motivated by anti-Semitism.”