Andreas Baader

Baader Meinhof

Between 1968 and 1977 several Germans became active in left wing terrorist organizations. It is argued that this time period represents one of the most tumultuous eras in West Germany’s entire internal social-political history. There were three dominant groups, the Red Army Faction (RAF), the Movement 2 June , and the Revolutionary Cells (RZ). The Red Army Faction was the most well known and was dubbed the Baader-Meinhof Gang by the media and public. Their offical name was chosen after that of the Red Army, a Japanese leftist terrorist organization and the word ‘faction’ tried to suggest that the group was part of a larger international Marxist struggle.

These groups were fueled by the evens of June 2. Benno Ohnesorg, a 26-year-old married college sutdent majoring in Romance languages and literature, whose wife was pregnant was shot by policeofficer, Karl- Heinz Kurras. Ohnesorg had never been to a demonstration before. Kurras cliamed that the gun ‘just went off’. He was charged with manslaughter but was aquitted on November 23, 1967.
Andreas Baader was both a namesake and leader of the group. He born May 6, 1947 and was a juvenial deliquent. He is rumoured to have been a spoiled and rebellious child. He had been drawn to the leftist student movement by the potential for violence. He met Ellinor Michel at the age of 20 and moved in with her and her husband, who made a perminent departure during Baader’s stay. He and Michel had a daughter named Suse in 1965. He was never faithful to his family and abandoned them after meeting Gudrun in 1967. He was convicted in 1968 of committing an act of arson in a Frankfurt department store. He escaped from police custody in May 1970 with the help of several founding members. He was finally re-captured two years later in a police shoot out on June 1, 1972. Baader spent the next four years in prison until his suicide on October 18, 1977.

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"Andreas Baader From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andreas Baader was born in Munich on May 6, 1943. He was the only child of historian and archivist Dr. Berndt Phillipp Baader. Berndt Baader served in the German Wehrmacht, was captured on the Russian Front in 1945, and never returned. Andreas was raised by his doting mother, aunt, and grandmother.

Baader was a high school dropout and criminal before his Red Army Faction (RAF) involvement. He was one of the few members of the RAF movement who did not attend a university. In 1968 Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin were convicted of the arson bombing of a department store in Frankfurt am Main to protest the public's "indifference" to the "genocide" in Vietnam. DM675,000 in damage was caused, no-one was injured or killed.

After being sentenced, Baader fled in November 1969. They were smuggled out of West Germany by sympathizers and made the tour of the left-wing communities of France, Switzerland, and Italy before sneaking back into West Germany.

Baader was later caught at a traffic stop for speeding on 4 April 1970. He produced a fake driver's license in the name of famous writer Peter Chotjewitz, but was placed under arrest when he failed to answer personal questions like the names and ages of Chotjewitz's children.

Ensslin masterminded an escape plan. Journalist Ulrike Meinhof and Baader's lawyers concocted a false "book deal" in which Meinhof would interview Baader. A few weeks later, in May 1970, he was allowed to meet her at the library of the Berlin Zentralinstitut outside the prison, without handcuffs but escorted by two armed guards. Meinhof was allowed to join him. Confederates Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert entered the library carrying suitcases, then opened a door to admit a masked gunman armed with a pistol and then drew pistols out of suitcases. They then fired shots that wounded a 64-year-old librarian, hitting him in his liver. Baader, the masked gunman, and the three women then fled through a window.

The group soon became known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

Baader and others then spent some time in a Fatah[1] military training camp in Jordan before being expelled due to "differences in attitudes". For example, when their trainers insisted their German guests attend training with the rest of the students, they protested by going nude sunbathing on the roof of their barracks. They seemed only interested in firing off weapons and detonating explosive devices and repeatedly ignored safety instructions. In one glaring example, Ulrike Meinhof almost blew herself up with an anti-tank grenade during one field exercise (in either a rash suicide attempt or a complete lack of any common sense.)

Back in Germany, Baader robbed banks and bombed buildings from 1970 to 1972. Despite never obtaining a driving licence, Baader was obsessed with driving. He regularly stole expensive sports cars for use by the gang, and was arrested driving an Iso Rivolta IR300.[2]

On June 1, 1972, Baader and fellow RAF members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins were apprehended after a lengthy shootout in Frankfurt. From 1975 to 1977, a long and expensive trial took place in a fortified building on the grounds of Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. According to reports from his jailers (including Horst Bubeck), the defendants, especially Baader, kept their cells as dirty and disgusting as possible in order to discourage searches for items that might be smuggled in; at this time lawyers and defendants were not separated by panes of glass during unsupervised meetings, as evidenced by photos taken by inmates.[citation needed] However, as a precaution against items being smuggled in, all prisoners were strip-searched and inspected and given new clothes before and after meeting lawyers.[3]

During a collective hunger strike in 1974, which led to the death of Meins, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre visited Baader in Stammheim Prison where he was being held. He allegedly described Baader after the meeting as being an "idiot" ("Quel con !").[4][5][6] But, although he did not like Baader's behavior, he criticized the harsh conditions of imprisonment Baader endured.[7][8]

Meinhof was found dead in her cell at Stuttgart-Stammheim on 9 May 1976, hanging from the grating covering her cell window. Members of the Red Army Faction and others claimed that she was killed by the German authorities. The second generation of the RAF committed several kidnappings and killings in a campaign in support of their comrades.

The three remaining defendants were convicted in April 1977 of several murders, attempted murders, and of forming a terrorist organization, and were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Militants tried to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members by kidnapping Hanns Martin Schleyer on 5 September 1977, as part of the sequence of events known as the "German Autumn", which began on 30 July 1977 with the murder of the banker Jürgen Ponto.

However, on 6 September 1977 an official statement was released in which the state declared that the prisoners would not be released under any circumstances, and on the same day a Kontaktsperre ("communication ban") was enacted against all RAF prisoners. This order deprived prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside; all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, were forbidden. In addition, the prisoners were deprived of their access to post, newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. The official justification for this was a claim by the state that the prisoners had supervised Schleyer's kidnapping from their cells with the assistance of their lawyers. It was claimed that a hand-drawn map had been found which had been used in the kidnapping in Newerla’s car on 5 September. On 10 September the prisoners' lawyers lost their appeal against the Kontaktsperre order and on 2 October it became effective.[9]

On 13 October 1977 four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 on a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, their leader demanding the release of the eleven RAF prisoners detained at Stammheim. The aircraft was eventually flown to Mogadishu, Somalia, where it arrived in the early hours of 17 October. The passengers of the Boeing 737 were freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977 which saw the death of three of the militants. According to official accounts of his death, Raspe learned of GSG 9's success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Möller, who agreed to a suicide pact. In the morning, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe were found dead in their cells, having died from gunshot wounds, while Gudrun Ensslin was found hanging from a noose made from speaker wire. RAF member Irmgard Möller was found with four stab wounds to her chest, but survived.[10]

All official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed collective suicide, and Baader-Meinhof biographer Stefan Aust argued in the original edition of his book, The Baader-Meinhof Group (1985), that they almost assuredly did kill themselves.

There are many debatable aspects to the deaths: Baader was supposed to have shot himself in the base of the neck so that the bullet exited through his forehead; repeated tests indicated that it was virtually impossible for a person to hold and fire a gun in such a way. In addition, three bullet holes were found in his cell: one lodged in the wall, one in the mattress, and the fatal bullet itself lodged in the floor, suggesting that Baader had fired twice before killing himself. Finally, Baader had powder burns on his right hand, but he was left-handed. Raspe, however, showed no signs of powder burns.[3]

The theory itself that guns had somehow been smuggled into Stammheim prison depended on the testimony of Hans Joachim Dellwo (brother of prisoner Karl-Heinz Dellwo) and Volker Speitel (husband of Angelika Speitel). Both had been arrested on 2 October 1977, and charged with belonging to a criminal association; under pressure from the police they subsequently admitted to acting as couriers and testified that they were aware of lawyers smuggling items to the prisoners during the trial. Their testimony was, however, tainted because they provided it in order to avoid lengthy prison sentences and received reduced sentences and new identities. In 1979 two defence attorneys were tried and convicted for smuggling weapons. However, as noted above, the lawyers had been unable to meet with their clients after 6 September 1977 due to the Kontaktsperre order.[3]

In the revised version of his comprehensive book on the RAF, which incorporates much new evidence and was published in English in 2009, Stefan Aust is categorical that the group members committed suicide.[11] Following their apparent suicides, the German government had the brains of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe removed for study at the Neurological Research Institute at the University of Tübingen. The results of Meinhof's brain study showed damage from an operation for a brain tumor in 1962.[12] The results of the study of the others' brains are not known.

Aside from the removal of his brain, a death mask was made of Baader. The brains of all but Meinhof have apparently been lost and cannot be accounted for by German authorities.[13]

In fiction:

Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht ("Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang On Trial") (1986) a film directed by Reinhard Hauff; with Ulrich Tukur in the role of Andreas Baader; after the book by Stefan Aust. It won the Golden Bear at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival; the film hasn't been shown or aired in Germany since due to the controversial subject matter.

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - the manic narcissist assassin Otto (played by Kevin Kline) was a parody roughly based on Andreas Baader.[citation needed]

Todesspiel ("Death Play") (1997) is a TV docudrama by Heinrich Breloer; with Sebastian Koch as Andreas Baader. It is about the kidnapping and later cold-blooded murder of Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbändeunion (BDA) president Hanns Martin Schleyer.

In 2002, director Christopher Roth released the film Baader, with Frank Giering in the title role.[14] It covers the period between 1967 and 1972.

In the 2008 movie Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [15] it was decided that the actor Moritz Bleibtreu who played Baader should not lisp as Baader did.[16]

Notes:

   ^ Stefan Aust, Baader-Meinhof: the Inside Story of the R.A.F. Oxford, 2009.

   ^ Klaus Stern (October 2007). "Terrorist ohne Führerschein". einestages on Spiegel Online.

   ^ a b c Smith, J.; André Moncourt (2008). Daring To Struggle, Failing To Win: The Red Army Faction’s 1977 Campaign Of Desperation. PM Press. pp. 28. ISBN 1604860286.

   ^ Wormser, Gerard (24 September 2006). "Sartre adversaire de la non-violence ?". Alternatives non violentes, n° 139, juin 2006. Retrieved 16 November 2008. "Par exemple, après avoir rencontré l'extrémiste Baader dans sa prison en Allemagne, il en est ressorti en disant : "Quel con!!!""

   ^ "Sartre par lui-même", 1976

   ^ Note that the French word Sartre reportedly used to describe Baader (con) can also carry the secondary meaning of "cunt."

   ^ Sartre, Jean-Paul (7 December 1974). "La mort lente d'Andreas Baader". Libération. Retrieved 16 November 2008.

   ^ Sartre, Jean-Paul (2004). "The Slow Death of Andreas Baader (English Translation)". marxists.org, translation of the 1974 Libération article. Retrieved 16 November 2008. "This absence of communication with others through sound creates profound problems (...). These latter destroy thought by rendering it increasingly difficult. Little by little, it provokes blackouts, then delirium, and, obviously, madness. So even if there is no “torturer,” there are people who squeeze certain levers on another level. This torture provokes deficits in the prisoner; it leads him to stupefaction or to death."

   ^ Smith, p. 22

   ^ Smith and Moncourt, p. 27

   ^ See, e.g., pp. xvii-xviii, Stefan Aust, Baader-Meinhof: the Inside Story of the R.A.F. Oxford, 2009.

   ^ "Meinhof brain study yields clues". BBC News. 12 November 2002. Retrieved 23 April 2010.

   ^ "Red Army Faction brains 'disappeared'". BBC News. 16 November 2002. Retrieved 23 April 2010.

   ^ [1]

   ^ [2]

   ^ Talk Show "Anne Will" broadcast on Phoenix 10am 22.Sept 2008

References: Becker, Jillian (1977). Hitler's children: The story of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang. Lippincott. ISBN 0397011539."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Baader

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_Gang

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyPl4tFo2IA

"Bernd Andreas Baader (* 6. Mai 1943 in München; † 18. Oktober 1977 in Stuttgart-Stammheim) war einer der führenden Köpfe der ersten Generation der Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). Er war 1972 an fünf Sprengstoffanschlägen mit vier Todesopfern beteiligt, wurde 1972 verhaftet und 1977 in seiner Zelle erschossen aufgefunden. Gerichtsmediziner stellten Suizid fest.

In seinen Berliner Jahren arbeitete er als Bauarbeiter und ohne Erfolg als Boulevardjournalist. Er interessierte sich ebenfalls für Literatur und Philosophie. Von seiner zeitweiligen Lebensgefährtin, der verheirateten Malerin Ellinor Michel (1939-2007), mit der er gemeinsam mit ihrem Mann, dem Maler Manfred Henkel (1936-1988), in einer Berliner Villa lebte, wurde er als gewalttätig und provokativ beschrieben. Mit ihr zeugte er eine Tochter, die 1965 geboren wurde und von Manfred Henkel aufgezogen wurde."

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"Andreas Baader wuchs mit drei Frauen auf: seiner Mutter, der Großmutter und einer Tante. Der Vater war 1945 in Kriegsgefangenschaft geraten und nie zurückgekehrt. Baader liebte schnelle Autos und hatte ein unorthodoxes Rechtsverständnis. Als er mit 21 Jahren nach Berlin zog, hatte er bereits eine lange Strafakte, die vor allem Diebstähle und Verkehrsdelikte enthielt. Baader studierte nicht, weil er nie Abitur gemacht hatte, aber er ging mit den Studenten auf die Straße. Schnell wurde er Teil der radikalen linken Szene in Berlin. Einem Beruf ging Baader nicht nach. Er verdiente Geld mit Gelegenheitsjobs, zum Beispiel als Fotomodell für ein schwules Magazin. Er lebte mit der verheirateten Malerin Ellinor Michel zusammen, mit der er 1965 ein Kind bekam. Aber er entwickelte nie ein enges Verhältnis zu seiner Tochter."

(Autorin: Christine Buth)

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Tabellarischer Lebenslauf:

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Baader Meinhof Between 1968 and 1977 several Germans became active in left wing terrorist organizations. It is argued that this time period represents one of the most tumultuous eras in West Germany’s entire internal social-political history. There were three dominant groups, the Red Army Faction (RAF), the Movement 2 June , and the Revolutionary Cells (RZ). The Red Army Faction was the most well known and was dubbed the Baader-Meinhof Gang by the media and public. Their offical name was chosen after that of the Red Army, a Japanese leftist terrorist organization and the word ‘faction’ tried to suggest that the group was part of a larger international Marxist struggle.

These groups were fueled by the evens of June 2. Benno Ohnesorg, a 26-year-old married college sutdent majoring in Romance languages and literature, whose wife was pregnant was shot by policeofficer, Karl- Heinz Kurras. Ohnesorg had never been to a demonstration before. Kurras cliamed that the gun ‘just went off’. He was charged with manslaughter but was aquitted on November 23, 1967. Andreas Baader was both a namesake and leader of the group. He born May 6, 1947 and was a juvenial deliquent. He is rumoured to have been a spoiled and rebellious child. He had been drawn to the leftist student movement by the potential for violence. He met Ellinor Michel at the age of 20 and moved in with her and her husband, who made a perminent departure during Baader’s stay. He and Michel had a daughter named Suse in 1965. He was never faithful to his family and abandoned them after meeting Gudrun in 1967. He was convicted in 1968 of committing an act of arson in a Frankfurt department store. He escaped from police custody in May 1970 with the help of several founding members. He was finally re-captured two years later in a police shoot out on June 1, 1972. Baader spent the next four years in prison until his suicide on October 18, 1977.

source: http://www.germanfortravellers.com/index.php?option=com_content&tas...

"Andreas Baader From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andreas Baader was born in Munich on May 6, 1943. He was the only child of historian and archivist Dr. Berndt Phillipp Baader. Berndt Baader served in the German Wehrmacht, was captured on the Russian Front in 1945, and never returned. Andreas was raised by his doting mother, aunt, and grandmother.

Baader was a high school dropout and criminal before his Red Army Faction (RAF) involvement. He was one of the few members of the RAF movement who did not attend a university. In 1968 Baader and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin were convicted of the arson bombing of a department store in Frankfurt am Main to protest the public's "indifference" to the "genocide" in Vietnam. DM675,000 in damage was caused, no-one was injured or killed.

After being sentenced, Baader fled in November 1969. They were smuggled out of West Germany by sympathizers and made the tour of the left-wing communities of France, Switzerland, and Italy before sneaking back into West Germany.

Baader was later caught at a traffic stop for speeding on 4 April 1970. He produced a fake driver's license in the name of famous writer Peter Chotjewitz, but was placed under arrest when he failed to answer personal questions like the names and ages of Chotjewitz's children.

Ensslin masterminded an escape plan. Journalist Ulrike Meinhof and Baader's lawyers concocted a false "book deal" in which Meinhof would interview Baader. A few weeks later, in May 1970, he was allowed to meet her at the library of the Berlin Zentralinstitut outside the prison, without handcuffs but escorted by two armed guards. Meinhof was allowed to join him. Confederates Irene Goergens and Ingrid Schubert entered the library carrying suitcases, then opened a door to admit a masked gunman armed with a pistol and then drew pistols out of suitcases. They then fired shots that wounded a 64-year-old librarian, hitting him in his liver. Baader, the masked gunman, and the three women then fled through a window.

The group soon became known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

Baader and others then spent some time in a Fatah[1] military training camp in Jordan before being expelled due to "differences in attitudes". For example, when their trainers insisted their German guests attend training with the rest of the students, they protested by going nude sunbathing on the roof of their barracks. They seemed only interested in firing off weapons and detonating explosive devices and repeatedly ignored safety instructions. In one glaring example, Ulrike Meinhof almost blew herself up with an anti-tank grenade during one field exercise (in either a rash suicide attempt or a complete lack of any common sense.)

Back in Germany, Baader robbed banks and bombed buildings from 1970 to 1972. Despite never obtaining a driving licence, Baader was obsessed with driving. He regularly stole expensive sports cars for use by the gang, and was arrested driving an Iso Rivolta IR300.[2]

On June 1, 1972, Baader and fellow RAF members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins were apprehended after a lengthy shootout in Frankfurt. From 1975 to 1977, a long and expensive trial took place in a fortified building on the grounds of Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. According to reports from his jailers (including Horst Bubeck), the defendants, especially Baader, kept their cells as dirty and disgusting as possible in order to discourage searches for items that might be smuggled in; at this time lawyers and defendants were not separated by panes of glass during unsupervised meetings, as evidenced by photos taken by inmates.[citation needed] However, as a precaution against items being smuggled in, all prisoners were strip-searched and inspected and given new clothes before and after meeting lawyers.[3]

During a collective hunger strike in 1974, which led to the death of Meins, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre visited Baader in Stammheim Prison where he was being held. He allegedly described Baader after the meeting as being an "idiot" ("Quel con !").[4][5][6] But, although he did not like Baader's behavior, he criticized the harsh conditions of imprisonment Baader endured.[7][8]

Meinhof was found dead in her cell at Stuttgart-Stammheim on 9 May 1976, hanging from the grating covering her cell window. Members of the Red Army Faction and others claimed that she was killed by the German authorities. The second generation of the RAF committed several kidnappings and killings in a campaign in support of their comrades.

The three remaining defendants were convicted in April 1977 of several murders, attempted murders, and of forming a terrorist organization, and were sentenced to life imprisonment.

Militants tried to force the release of Baader and ten other imprisoned RAF members by kidnapping Hanns Martin Schleyer on 5 September 1977, as part of the sequence of events known as the "German Autumn", which began on 30 July 1977 with the murder of the banker Jürgen Ponto.

However, on 6 September 1977 an official statement was released in which the state declared that the prisoners would not be released under any circumstances, and on the same day a Kontaktsperre ("communication ban") was enacted against all RAF prisoners. This order deprived prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside; all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, were forbidden. In addition, the prisoners were deprived of their access to post, newspapers, magazines, television, and radio. The official justification for this was a claim by the state that the prisoners had supervised Schleyer's kidnapping from their cells with the assistance of their lawyers. It was claimed that a hand-drawn map had been found which had been used in the kidnapping in Newerla’s car on 5 September. On 10 September the prisoners' lawyers lost their appeal against the Kontaktsperre order and on 2 October it became effective.[9]

On 13 October 1977 four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 on a flight from Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt, their leader demanding the release of the eleven RAF prisoners detained at Stammheim. The aircraft was eventually flown to Mogadishu, Somalia, where it arrived in the early hours of 17 October. The passengers of the Boeing 737 were freed in an assault carried out by German GSG 9 special forces in the early hours of 18 October 1977 which saw the death of three of the militants. According to official accounts of his death, Raspe learned of GSG 9's success on a smuggled transistor radio, and spent the next few hours talking to Baader, Ensslin, and Möller, who agreed to a suicide pact. In the morning, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe were found dead in their cells, having died from gunshot wounds, while Gudrun Ensslin was found hanging from a noose made from speaker wire. RAF member Irmgard Möller was found with four stab wounds to her chest, but survived.[10]

All official inquiries on the matter concluded that Baader and his two accomplices committed collective suicide, and Baader-Meinhof biographer Stefan Aust argued in the original edition of his book, The Baader-Meinhof Group (1985), that they almost assuredly did kill themselves.

There are many debatable aspects to the deaths: Baader was supposed to have shot himself in the base of the neck so that the bullet exited through his forehead; repeated tests indicated that it was virtually impossible for a person to hold and fire a gun in such a way. In addition, three bullet holes were found in his cell: one lodged in the wall, one in the mattress, and the fatal bullet itself lodged in the floor, suggesting that Baader had fired twice before killing himself. Finally, Baader had powder burns on his right hand, but he was left-handed. Raspe, however, showed no signs of powder burns.[3]

The theory itself that guns had somehow been smuggled into Stammheim prison depended on the testimony of Hans Joachim Dellwo (brother of prisoner Karl-Heinz Dellwo) and Volker Speitel (husband of Angelika Speitel). Both had been arrested on 2 October 1977, and charged with belonging to a criminal association; under pressure from the police they subsequently admitted to acting as couriers and testified that they were aware of lawyers smuggling items to the prisoners during the trial. Their testimony was, however, tainted because they provided it in order to avoid lengthy prison sentences and received reduced sentences and new identities. In 1979 two defence attorneys were tried and convicted for smuggling weapons. However, as noted above, the lawyers had been unable to meet with their clients after 6 September 1977 due to the Kontaktsperre order.[3]

In the revised version of his comprehensive book on the RAF, which incorporates much new evidence and was published in English in 2009, Stefan Aust is categorical that the group members committed suicide.[11] Following their apparent suicides, the German government had the brains of Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe removed for study at the Neurological Research Institute at the University of Tübingen. The results of Meinhof's brain study showed damage from an operation for a brain tumor in 1962.[12] The results of the study of the others' brains are not known.

Aside from the removal of his brain, a death mask was made of Baader. The brains of all but Meinhof have apparently been lost and cannot be accounted for by German authorities.[13]

In fiction:

Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht ("Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang On Trial") (1986) a film directed by Reinhard Hauff; with Ulrich Tukur in the role of Andreas Baader; after the book by Stefan Aust. It won the Golden Bear at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival; the film hasn't been shown or aired in Germany since due to the controversial subject matter.

A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - the manic narcissist assassin Otto (played by Kevin Kline) was a parody roughly based on Andreas Baader.[citation needed]

Todesspiel ("Death Play") (1997) is a TV docudrama by Heinrich Breloer; with Sebastian Koch as Andreas Baader. It is about the kidnapping and later cold-blooded murder of Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbändeunion (BDA) president Hanns Martin Schleyer.

In 2002, director Christopher Roth released the film Baader, with Frank Giering in the title role.[14] It covers the period between 1967 and 1972.

In the 2008 movie Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [15] it was decided that the actor Moritz Bleibtreu who played Baader should not lisp as Baader did.[16]

Notes:

   ^ Stefan Aust, Baader-Meinhof: the Inside Story of the R.A.F. Oxford, 2009.

   ^ Klaus Stern (October 2007). "Terrorist ohne Führerschein". einestages on Spiegel Online.

   ^ a b c Smith, J.; André Moncourt (2008). Daring To Struggle, Failing To Win: The Red Army Faction’s 1977 Campaign Of Desperation. PM Press. pp. 28. ISBN 1604860286.

   ^ Wormser, Gerard (24 September 2006). "Sartre adversaire de la non-violence ?". Alternatives non violentes, n° 139, juin 2006. Retrieved 16 November 2008. "Par exemple, après avoir rencontré l'extrémiste Baader dans sa prison en Allemagne, il en est ressorti en disant : "Quel con!!!""

   ^ "Sartre par lui-même", 1976

   ^ Note that the French word Sartre reportedly used to describe Baader (con) can also carry the secondary meaning of "cunt."

   ^ Sartre, Jean-Paul (7 December 1974). "La mort lente d'Andreas Baader". Libération. Retrieved 16 November 2008.

   ^ Sartre, Jean-Paul (2004). "The Slow Death of Andreas Baader (English Translation)". marxists.org, translation of the 1974 Libération article. Retrieved 16 November 2008. "This absence of communication with others through sound creates profound problems (...). These latter destroy thought by rendering it increasingly difficult. Little by little, it provokes blackouts, then delirium, and, obviously, madness. So even if there is no “torturer,” there are people who squeeze certain levers on another level. This torture provokes deficits in the prisoner; it leads him to stupefaction or to death."

   ^ Smith, p. 22

   ^ Smith and Moncourt, p. 27

   ^ See, e.g., pp. xvii-xviii, Stefan Aust, Baader-Meinhof: the Inside Story of the R.A.F. Oxford, 2009.

   ^ "Meinhof brain study yields clues". BBC News. 12 November 2002. Retrieved 23 April 2010.

   ^ "Red Army Faction brains 'disappeared'". BBC News. 16 November 2002. Retrieved 23 April 2010.

   ^ [1]

   ^ [2]

   ^ Talk Show "Anne Will" broadcast on Phoenix 10am 22.Sept 2008

References: Becker, Jillian (1977). Hitler's children: The story of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang. Lippincott. ISBN 0397011539."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Baader

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_Gang

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyPl4tFo2IA