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Suspiriatakes place in Berlin in 1977, and boy, does it ever.
Where we need to start, then, is in the period immediately after the war.
And, Nazi or not, ordinary Germans often resisted reckoning with the violence carried out in their name.
The result was a society where actual Nazis and actual Nazi beliefs were both still widespread.
As the years went on, these sentiments subsided, but the sense of victimization did not.
You cant argue with people who made Auschwitz.
They have weapons and we dont.
We must arm ourselves.
When we see the RAF inSuspiria, most of their original leaders are in jail.
When the government refused to negotiate, the RAF raised the stakes.
(News coverage of this pops up inSuspiria.)
Schleyer was murdered the next day, his body left in a car trunk in France.
Were getting outside the purview of the movie, but the RAF would hang around until 1998.
In all they were responsible for the deaths of more than 30 people, many of them innocent bystanders.
