https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/05/28/germany-68-and-the-stasi/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 04:59:32 -0400<![CDATA[A  story appeared recently in The New York Times, and the revelation shook Germans to the core. It tells of an incident that took place in 1967, when an unarmed left-wing student demonstrator,  one  Benno Ohnesorg, was shot and killed by a West German police officer, Karl-Heinz Kurras.  It had a lot to do with the German Left&#8217;s turn to violence, and to the formation of  the ultra-radical Red Army Faction, also known as the Beider-Meinhoff gang. Arguing that the democratic West German state had become a &#8220;pre-fascist state,&#8221; the murder was used to rationalize the turn to terror as a tactic. The violent New Left in Germany was akin to our own Weather Underground on steroids.]]>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:36:58 -0400<![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]>https://pjmedia.com/ron-radosh/2009/05/28/germany-68-and-the-stasi-n182862