Tupamaros West-Berlin ( TW ) were a small German Marxist organization which carried out a series of bombings and arsons at the end of the 1960s . In 1969 Dieter Kunzelmann , Georg von Rauch , and a few others traveled to Jordan to train at a Fatah camp , forming the Tupamaros on their return to Germany . The group took their name from the Uruguayan Tupamaros . The TW had a core membership of about 15 people . Their first action was an attempted bombing of West Berlin 's Jewish Community Centre on November 9 , 1969 ( the anniversary of Kristallnacht ) ; the bomb , supplied by the undercover government agent Peter Urbach , failed to explode . This was followed in the fall of 1969 by a number of bombings and arsons targeting police , judges , and US and Israeli targets . The TW claimed responsibility for these attacks under a variety of different names in order to exaggerate the size of their movement . The group was led by Kunzelmann and von Rauch , and dissolved after the former was arrested in 1970 and the latter was killed by police in 1971 . Its core members then formed the Movement 2 June , while some others joined the Red Army Faction
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Tupamaros West-Berlin