Some Recent Findings on East Germany and the West German Radical Left from the 1960s to 1989

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Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Herf Affiliation: Department of History, University of Maryland Title: "At War with Israel: Some Recent Findings on East Germany and the West German Radical Left from the 1960s to 1989" Location: Fordham University, New York Date: November 15, 2012 Description: Dr. Jeffery Herf examines the attitudes of the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations to the State of Israel and its adversaries. He provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated with Palestinian terrorist groups, and claims that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the Middle East conflict than generally presumed. He goes on to focus on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and draws the conclusion that the East German government was approaching a state of war with the State of Israel.