At its most extreme, the radicalization of post-’68 protest culture took root in terrorist organizations like Germany’s Red Army Faction (RAF), also known as the Baader- Meinhof Gang (below). “They’ll kill us all. You know what kind of pigs we’re up against. This is the Auschwitz generation,” one of RAF’s founders insisted. “You can’t argue with people who made Auschwitz. They have weapons and we don’t.” The belief that Germany and Austria were run by unrepentant perpetrators of mass murder drove Viennese Actionists to perform gruesome acts of violence against themselves (see displays on this floor). Terrorist groups like RAF directed that rage against regimes. “Baader-Meinhof send their regards,” a headline in the anarchist zine Berlin Arsonist reads (below), over RAF statements claiming responsibility for the bombing of a U.S. military base as reprisal for carpet bombing in Vietnam. As in Italy (see below right), the turn to terror brought a thriving protest culture to an end—not onl...