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other people. The founders offered the possibility of motivating
identification with others r who could join the armed struggle and fight
'side by side ( with the leaders .111 Later membership motivation was
identification with the same leaders to improve their prison conditions,
or to help free them.
Earlier the initiation of the Wolfsburg group with the murder of
Schmuecker into the Second of June was mentioned. This highlights
evidence of sub-groups or cliques wi thin the overall group. The new
clique will remain linked closer together than with the other members,
and in an analysis of the terrorist groups these cliques can be measured
for size and proportion of the group that it covers over time. 11Z
Table 5.2: Clique Indices of the B2J, 1970-1976
I Year : Total I Total I I I I Expect-~ Maxi- I Mini- I Percent: Large
iN I number I I I
I ed avg.: mum I mum I of per-\ clique
I I I
of clique I clique: clique \ sons • I I I , ill, percent
1 cliques 1 size* size size
I
, , , , ,
small I of the
I I , I I I
cliques: total N
,
I
, , , ,
---------------------------------------------------------------
1971 13 1
, 13 13
I I I
I , I , 13 I 0% I 100%
1972 I I I 24 7 3.4 7 2
I
, ,
I I I
, , 16 I 29
,
I I I I I I
I I I I I I
,
1973 , 26
, 5
I
5.2
I
6
I
4
I
0
I
19
1974 I I I I I I I
I 34 I 7 I 4.8 I 7 I 2 I 11 I 20
I 1975 I I I I I 1 I
37 9 4.1 11 2 32 24
I 1976 I I I I ,
40 11 3.6 6 2
, 60
I
, , I I I I I 27
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Year I
Distribution of the Cliques by Size
I 2 3
I
, , 4 , 5 1 6 J 7 I 8 I 9 I I I
, , ,
I
, 10: 11: 12: 13
-----------------------------------------------------
,
1971 I I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I I , 1
1972 I 2 I 3 1 I I I I , I I
, , I 1 I I I
,
I I
1973
I
I 1
I
,
2 I 2 J I I ,
I I I I I I I
1974 2 , , I I I ,
1 1 3 I I , I
I I I I I
, ,
I I I
1975 3 I 2 I 1 I 2 I 1 I I I I I I
I I I I I I I I 1976 I 3 I 2 3 I 2 I 1 I I
, , , , , , , , , , , I
,
* The number obtained when total n is divided by the total
number of cliques.
I
I
1
I
Source: Jo Groebel, Hubert Feger r IIAnalyse von Strukturen
terroristischer Gruppierungen" r in: Wanda von Baeyer-Katte, Dieter
Claessens r Hubert Feger, FriedheIm Neidhardt (eds.), Gruppenprozesse:
Analysen zum Terrorismus Band 3 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1982) r
393-432r 424.
An examination of the cliques in the RAF and the B2J showed that the
B2J had larger cliques to begin with than the RAF and that because of
its equal contacts with everyone,
the B2J was more stable in the
beginning than the RAF which had a central clique holding the structure
111 Groebel, Feger r 418.
112 ibid. r 419.