Word: stammheim
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...That generational shift is notable. Many Germans raised in the 1960s, caught up in the backlash against their parents' involvement with National Socialism, tacitly sympathized with the RAF's stated goals, though rarely with their tactics. Films such as Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and Stammheim (1986) depicted the terrorists as victims of their times. In the 1990s, a Hamburg-based designer even created a T shirt with the slogan prada-meinhof. Since Sept. 11, such radical chic has lost its allure...
...Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin. Once again police were there in force as West German radicals -some of them masked to conceal their identities-praised the dead prisoners as martyrs and chanted political slogans. A few carried banners: GUDRUN, ANDREAS AND JAN-TORTURED AND MURDERED AT STAMMHEIM...
Investigations were also continuing into the deaths of Baader and the other members of his gang; two had died of pistol wounds, the third by hanging. The state government of Baden-Wurttemberg, which runs Stammheim prison, issued a preliminary report. In the terrorists' cells, investigators had found hidden explosives, razor blades, a radio and homemade Morse code equipment. They theorized that when one prisoner, Raspe, had picked up the news of the Mogadishu raid on his secret transistor radio, he immediately passed the word to the others through Morse code signals. This, the investigators speculated, led the prisoners...
...Army Faction?the group taking credit for the abduction. "After 43 days," he said, "we have put an end to the miserable and corrupt existence of Hanns-Martin Schleyer. His death does not measure up to our grief and anger after the slaughter at Mogadishu and Stammheim." The caller then said Schmidt could "take delivery [of Schleyer] in Charles Péguy Street in Mulhouse." which is about ten miles from the German border. There, in the trunk of a green Audi sedan, police found Schleyer's corpse. Medical examination later disclosed that he had been killed shortly after the word...
...suspected killer lay dying in a Singen hospital last week, he was identified as Günter Sonnenberg, 22, the No. 1 fugitive on West Germany's "Most Wanted" list. His companion, Verena Becker, 24, is now in West Germany's top security prison in Stammheim. Both had been involved with the terrorist Red Army Faction founded by Ulrike Meinhof, who hanged herself in prison last year, and Andreas Baader, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month (TIME, May 9). Responsible for a series of "anti-imperialist" bank heists, bombings of U.S. Army bases in Germany...