# @beineckelibrary on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CwIIdBjP-Vp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32030591-beineckelibrary-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-08-19T13:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Beinecke Library (@beineckelibrary) — https://gondola.cc/beineckelibrary

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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 only in Germany, but throughout Europe. States, too, decided it was time to fight fire with fire. By the early 1980s, even the smallest peaceful demonstrations met with heavily armed riot police everywhere.

This is part of our newest exhibition, Art, Protest, and the Archives, here at the Beinecke! Now open until January 7th, 2024! Link in bio!

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| Beinecke Library | @beineckelibrary | https://gondola.cc/beineckelibrary | University |
| Shelagh Laverty | @Shelagh_Laverty | https://gondola.cc/Shelagh_Laverty | Creative Media Intern |

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