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- Title
Keine „Atempause": Das Krisenmanagement der Bundesregierung und die Flugzeugentführung von Entebbe 1976.
- Authors
Eikel, Markus
- Abstract
The hostage drama in Entebbe/Uganda in June /July 1976 has mostly been remembered due to the Israeli rescue mission, Operation Thunderbolt. It is also notable, however, that this hi-jacking was a joint West German/Palestinian terrorist commando Operation to force the release of prisoners in Israel and the Federal Republic. The participation of two members of the “Revolutionary Cells" and the demand for the release of German terrorists of the “Red Army Faction" and the “Movement 2 June " confronted the Federal Government with a further challenge in their conflict with militant German leftist terrorists. On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of Federal German governmental documents, Markus Eikel describes the actions of and alternatives available to the Federal Government during the Entebbe hostage drama. During the course of the crisis, especially in the German Foreign Office, it was taken into consideration to give up the generally intransigent stance towards the terrorists' demands in order to achieve a unitary Position with the Israeli and French alliance partners. The Israeli rescue operation saved the Federal Government from having to choose between these principles.
- Subjects
GERMANY (West); UGANDA; ISRAEL; ENTEBBE Airport Raid, 1976; COUNTERTERRORISM policy; COUNTERTERRORISM; ROTE Armee Fraktion; POPULAR Front for the Liberation of Palestine; ARAB-Israeli conflict, 1973-1993; AMIN, Idi, 1925-2003; WEST German politics &; government; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2013, Vol 61, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1524/vfzg.2013.0011