My major is German . Part of the subject is covering social , historical and political issues mostly in Germany . So essays I would be writing would be in German and it would be assessed for both my competence in written German and my competence at researching the topic and making a proper essay . The 1970 s , student movements and West German terrorism were parts of topics covered last year as part of learning about Germany in general . I ' m still a student , but I ' m currently on my exchange year in Germany for a few reasons , but it ' s integral to my course . Point is , I ' ve actually had to look into the controversies in the GSG 9 , that is the accusations that the GSG 9 had executed members of the RAF instead of arresting them as a kind of revenge for an instance where a GSG 9 operator was killed in an operation against the RAF . Some creative minds , mostly songwriters and poets have no love lost for the GSG 9 and have written songspoems that depict them as a tool of oppressive authority . It ' s probably something that ' d be better off having its own thing rather than being explained in a comment .