Red Army Faction May 1972, members of the Baader-Meinhof gang armed six bombs in the Axel Springer Verlag in Hamburg. Only three of the six bombs exploded, but it was enough to injure 17 people. On 24 May 1972, just two weeks after the bombing of the United States headquarters in Frankfurt, the group set several car bombs off at the Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg. The bombing resulted in the death of three U.S officers and the injury of five others. On 10 November 1974, the group killed Günter von Drenkmann, the president of Germany's superior court of justice. The killing occurred after
More German than the Germans red flag on their whole street. This short account portrays why Jewish families were often described as "more German than the Germans." More German than the Germans The assimilated Jewish community in Germany, prior to World War II, has been self-described as "more German than the Germans". Originally, the comment was a "common sneer aimed at people" who had "thrown off the faith of their forefathers and adopted the garb of their Fatherland". The German assimilation, following the Enlightenment, was "unprecedented". The quote is sometimes ascribed to Chaim Weizmann. Following the Enlightenment, many European Jews regarded Germany as a particularly