VULKAN GRUPPE. THE TERRORISTS THAT WRECKED BERLIN

Episode Description
In this episode, we examine the emergence and escalation of a modern sabotage cell in Germany known as Vulkangruppe—and what its actions reveal about how contemporary extremist groups actually form and operate.
Beginning with the arson attack on the Tesla Berlin car factory and escalating to a wintertime attack on Berlin’s power grid, this episode traces a clear shift from symbolic protest to coercive civilian harm. We explore why electric vehicle infrastructure became a target, how climate rhetoric can function as moral justification rather than policy goal, and why modern extremist cells no longer need physical safe havens to evade detection.
Drawing on historical comparison with the Red Army Faction, the episode explains how today’s groups differ: smaller, low-tech, networked, and able to retreat into everyday normalcy rather than exile.