Niemcy wobec terroryzmu z zewnatrz
Germany against terrorism from the outside

Summary/Abstract: Political terrorism is not a new phenomenon for Germany, which has had to tackle numerous internal campaigns both left-wing and right-wing. In mid-20th century Germany became a target of attacks organized externally by foreign groups: the Palestinian movement and radical Kurd organizations. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the FRG, like all the Western countries, has also become an object of terrorist acts on the part of Islamist groups on grounds that Germany was part of the Western world and subsequently joined the international ‘‘war against terrorism’’. In all those cases a strategy was adopted that consisted in elimination of threats to Germany and its citizens. If it was considered that concessions would pacify the situation and direct the terrorists’ attention elsewhere, fight was abandoned. This strategy usually proved to be efficient. Apart from the Munich attack Germany did not become the object of actions of external groups in spite of belonging to elite nations. However, it must be noted that such a way of proceeding was only possible because others were at the same time conducting a major fight against terrorism. Were it not for Americans, Israelis, the English and others, German strategy would not be possible at all.

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