• The Frankfurt department store firebombings on 2 April 1968 in Frankfurt am Main were politically motivated arsons, in which the later co-founders of the...
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  • communists Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader mastermind the Frankfurt department store firebombings of 1968. While covering their trial, Meinhof is moved by...
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    1982.: 345  Andreas Baader 1943–1977 Involved in the 1968 Frankfurt department store firebombings, founded the RAF, and was arrested during the 1972 May...
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    Pacific and stored for future use. Arnold and the Air Staff wanted to wait to use the incendiaries until a large-scale program of firebombing could be mounted...
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    with Horst Söhnlein, they left for Frankfurt on 1 April. The night of 2 April 1968, a department store in Frankfurt was set ablaze, for which Baader, Ensslin...
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    mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional bombing and firebombing campaign that devastated 64 Japanese cities, including an operation on...
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    on the Yaesu side of the station, along with a multi-storey Daimaru department store. The entrances nearest to the Shinkansen lines are named Yaesu, and...
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    bombing of the Kaufhaus Schneider department store. On 2 April 1968, affiliates of the group firebombed the store and caused an estimated US$200,000...
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    "Evakuierung in Frankfurt: Das macht die 'Blockbuster'-Bombe so gefährlich". Die Welt (in German). "Bombenalarm in Frankfurt: Ganz Frankfurt dankt den Helden...
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    Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (category Firebombings)
    a shelter under the Karstadt department store at the corner of Desenißstrasse and Hamburger Strasse. The department store was hit by a bomb on the night...
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    British efforts. The Allies attacked oil installations, and controversial firebombings took place against Hamburg (1943), Dresden (1945), and other German cities...
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    street in Berlin. These corner buildings were rented from the city's department store magnate Rudolf Herdzog. Initially, it employed seven members of staff...
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    schools in more than 20 countries amid fears of reprisals. Its offices were firebombed in November 2011 after publishing a previous caricature of Muhammad on...
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    Ensslin firebombed two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main in West Germany, attacking the Kaufhaus Schneider store and the Kaufhol store in the early...
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  • audiences. In 1750, the Imperial Book Commission of the Holy Roman Empire at Frankfurt/Main ordered the wholesale burning of the works of Johann Christian Edelmann...
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    Youtai – Presence and Perception of Jews and Judaism in China. Vol. 47. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 29. ISBN 978-3631575338. Confucianism bans the...
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  • manuscripts and 4,500 volumes of academic publications, which had been stored for safe keeping in Steiermark, were lost as a result of plunder. In 1938...
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    26 July 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2009. "Paris area synagogue hit in firebomb attack".[dead link] Philippe Naughton, "Gaza conflict fuels anti-Semitic...
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  • enterprises, such as the Bacardi liquor company, major Havana hotels, the department store El Encanto, and internationally well-known entertainment venues, such...
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