LEADER 03819nam 22005895 450 001 9911018668203321 005 20250806174538.0 010 $a9783031762505$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031762499 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-76250-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32253175 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32253175 035 $a(CKB)40083123800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-76250-5 035 $a(OCoLC)1534119017 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940083123800041 100 $a20250806d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aShowdown Against RAF Terror $eHelmut Schmidt?s Crisis Management in the German Autumn /$fby Martin Rupps 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) 225 0 $aPolitical Science and International Studies 311 08$aPrint version: Rupps, Martin Showdown Against RAF Terror Cham : Springer,c2025 9783031762499 327 $aChapter 1.OLAF SCHOLZ AND HELMUT SCHMIDT -- Chapter 2.CRIME WITH AN ANNOUNCEMENT -- Chapter 3.THE BRUTALITY OF CHANCE -- Chapter 4.A NIGHT OF LIFE AND DEATH -- Chapter 5.ON THE CATWALK -- Chapter 6.MR VIETOR, WE MAKE YOU CAPTAIN -- Chapter 7.A RED BICYCLE FROM MR FEDERAL CHANCELLOR -- Chapter 8.OUR NEW FRIENDS, THE SHEIKHS -- Chapter 9.TRIUMPH AND DECLINE OF A GENERATION -- Chapter 10.EXPANSION -- Chapter 11.STATE RAISON. 330 $a"The killing of individuals must be accepted." Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Bonn, in a telephone conversation with Minister of State Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, Dubai, October 1977 The year of terror in 1977, which included the kidnapping of German industrial leader Hanns Martin Schleyer and later the hijacking of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" with 86 passengers and five crew members on board, presented the Federal Republic of Germany with its greatest test to date. Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had to engage in crisis management like no other incumbent before him. Hanns Martin Schleyer was ultimately murdered by his abductors, also the Captain of the ?Landshut? Jürgen Schumann. The other "Landshut" hostages were freed by members of Border Guard Force 9 under Commander Ulrich Wegener. In this book, political scientist and historian Martin Rupps, who was responsible for bringing the "Landshut" wreckage back to Germany from Brazil, retells the story of these fateful weeks, drawing on a range of previously unpublished sources to do so. For the first time, he shares deep insights into the thoughts and actions of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the members of the core and extended crisis teams. Contrary to the official narrative, Schmidt has never practiced more political cooperation than in these weeks. Further, in the hijacked "Landshut" itself, events unfolded differently than previously reported. "Man is the wolf of man", as philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously wrote. 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aTerrorism 606 $aPolitical violence 606 $aEurope, Central$xHistory 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aTerrorism and Political Violence 606 $aHistory of Germany and Central Europe 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aTerrorism. 615 0$aPolitical violence. 615 0$aEurope, Central$xHistory. 615 14$aPolitical History. 615 24$aTerrorism and Political Violence. 615 24$aHistory of Germany and Central Europe. 676 $a364.1552 700 $aRupps$b Martin$01074045 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911018668203321 996 $aShowdown Against RAF Terror$94414971 997 $aUNINA