Rote Armee Fraktion

The RAF started out as the Baader-Meinhof group which was formed in 1970 in Germany. It started out as a student protest movement in West Germany. There were three successive incarnations of the organization, the "first generation" consisted of  the founders; Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof. The "second generation" RAF, which operated in the mid to late 1970s after several former members of the Socialist Patients' Collective joined, and the "third generation" RAF, which existed in the 1980s and 1990s.
The group executed numerous operations, especially in the fall of 1977, which led to a national crisis that became known as "German Autumn". Over the course of the 28 years the RAF was in business they were held responsible for 34 deaths and many bombings and robberies.
The RAF was a left-wing group and was deemed to be one of the most violent and prominent in Europe. There were known as a communist and anti-imperialist group that engaged in urban guerilla resistance against the fascist state of Germany.

19th Century German Inventions

19th Century German Inventions

19th Century German Music, Theatre and Dance

19th Century German Music, Theatre and Dance

EU As A Pivotal Organization For Germany In 21st Century

1. Germany is united to other European countries through the euro.


2. The EU's tax system is set up so that any person working in Germany pays taxes to Germany.


3. The EU acts as a cheap international marketplace for Germany, which has led to its' prosperity.


4. Germany's membership in the EU will allow Germany to stay a global competitor.


5. Within the EU the members do not have to worry about tarriffs etc. which will allow Germany to sell their products more competitively.


6. The EU is a step towards bettering Germany's reputation after WWI and WWII.


7. The EU is a large participator in helping the environment which will only help Germany in the future.

Rulers & Government

18th Century German Rulers & Government

18th Century Poet

Friedrich von Schiller
November 10 1759-May 9 1805

(http://www.providencesingers.org/Concerts06/Season02-03/May03Concert.html)
German Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Dramatist and Historian Schiller born Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller in Marbach, Wurttemberg. Schiller's father, a military officer, ordered him to attend military academy against his sons wishes of studying theology. After 7 years of attending the academy he was dismissed because of his submission of a controversial essay on religion. After Schiller left the academy he was then forced to join his father's military regiment. Against his father's wishes he continued to write. Schiller worked very closely with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and were very influential towards eachother. He wrote 10 dramatical playwrights and is considered to be Germany's most important classical playwright. His most famous playwright is the Wallenstein, which was based on the Thirty Years War. Schiller only wrote 8 poems and very few of these were set to music, including one to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Giuseppe Verdi, an Italian composer, based many of his operas on Schiller's playwrights, some of them even having the same name.

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