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| The Media and the Paranoid StateDas Bild to FoxNews
Jacobs, Ronhttp://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/31/the-media-and-the-paranoid-state/ 
 Publisher:  CounterPunch
 Date Written:  31/10/2014
 Year Published:  2014
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 In 1975, West Germany was often under varying degrees of lockdown. Roadblocks were set up at autobahn exits and identification was checked; groups of heavily armed police were seen in city centers holding machine guns and looking menacing; and airports were under armed guard. The reason given for this military-like presence was the existence of a leftist terror group known as the Rote Armee Fraktion.
 
 
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