Baader-Meinhof
DC
"BAADER-MEINHOF - The Inside Story of the R.A.F."
(Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/BMstory )
Even during the 1970-77 heyday of the Red Army Faction --
West German terrorists also known as the Baader-Meinhof
gang -- the group operated in a claustrophobic, paranoid
atmosphere. "We were afraid of discussion; it seemed like
treachery," Astrid Proll, who was a junior member of the
gang, tells "Baader-Meinhof" author Stefan Aust. "And we
tried fending off danger by involving ourselves in it more
and more. Illegality became an end in itself, the means of
holding the group together."
The story has been told before: how a disparate group of
bright but morally and intellectually confused young
Germans met in the late 1960s and decided that society was
so irredeemably corrupt and oppressive that violence was
the only legitimate response. But there has never been an
account as authoritative, or as gripping, as "Baader-
Meinhof," which has the advantage of being related by a
journalist who was once so close to the action that the
gang targeted him for death...
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