Brühl's Wilfried is allowed to constantly explain that actually, he isn't a Nazi, even as his Palestinian colleagues are eagerly dividing the hostages into Jews and non-Jews at gunpoint, and later claims he wants to «throw
bombs into the consciousness of the masses» — a line that seems meant to persuade us of his intellectual stake in the Palestinian cause, rather than reveal him as a posturing nincompoop.
Soon after, when Böse is asked why he is here by a Palestinian comrade, the publisher - turned - revolutionary from Frankfurt replies, in all seriousness, «To throw
a bomb into the consciousness of masses.»