EP218 - The State That Would Not Kneel: Germany's Autumn of Terror
For six weeks in 1977, West Germany was held hostage — an industrialist seized at a fake traffic accident, an airliner hijacked across the Mediterranean with its captain executed on a sand strip in Yemen. The republic's answer was to refuse every demand, build a counter-terrorism unit from nothing, and bet eighty-seven lives on seven minutes of gunfire at Mogadishu. We dissect the anatomy of an unbending state. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you can buy me a coffee: https://paypal.me/podcast8
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