Tupamaros West-Berlin
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The Tupamaros West-Berlin (TW) were a small German
Their first action was an attempted bombing of West Berlin's Jewish Community Centre on November 9, 1969 (the anniversary of Kristallnacht); the bomb, supplied by the undercover government agent Peter Urbach, failed to explode.[4][5] This was followed in the fall of 1969 by a number of bombings and arsons targeting police, judges, and US and Israeli targets.[6] The TW claimed responsibility for these attacks under a variety of different names in order to exaggerate the size of their movement.[6]
The group was led by Kunzelmann and von Rauch, and dissolved after the former was arrested in 1970 and the latter was killed by police in 1971.
The Jewish Community Centre bombing attempt
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The Tupamaros Munich
Around the time of the TW's creation Fritz Teufel formed a similar group in Munich, the Tupamaros Munich (TM).[6] Brigitte Mohnhaupt, later an important figure in the second generation of the RAF, was a member.[9]
References
- ^ Kundnani, Hans (2009). Utopia Or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust. Columbia University Press. p. 114.
- ^ Kundnani 91, 99
- ^ a b c d Hauser, Dorothea (2008). "Terrorism". In Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (ed.). 1968 in Europe: a history of protest and activism, 1956-1977. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 271–72.
- ^ die tageszeitung. Retrieved 22 April 2010. Translated into English by Sign and Sight.
- ^ Kundnani 88, 90
- ^ a b c Kundnani 97
- ^ Huffman, Richard. "Tupamaros". Baader-Meinhof.com. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- Camden House. p. 84.
- ISBN 978-1-60486-028-3.