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Feb 12, 2007 · Baader was then captured with accomplices Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins in a Frankfurt shootout on 1 June, 1972. Baader's girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin was arrested a week later, and Meinhof was...
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Holger Meins died of self-induced starvation on 9 November 1974. After public protests, their conditions were somewhat improved by the authorities. The so-called second generation of the RAF emerged at that time, consisting of sympathizers independent of the inmates.
Mar 20, 2024 · Conspiracy theories abounded, but widely accepted today is the belief that Meinhof was being bullied by Baader and Ensslin and, in deep depression, had killed herself. “People were genuinely angry,” says Armin Becker, 72, then a student at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Meins died on 11 November 1974 as a result of the hunger strike. He weighed less than 100 pounds at the time of his death; he was over six feet (1.8 m) tall. His death sparked rage amongst RAF members everywhere.
Jan 19, 2016 · German officials have confirmed that a botched armed robbery near Bremen last year was the work of three wanted militants from the now disbanded Red Army Faction (RAF).
NARRATOR: The small terrorist group keep the republic on its toes. In June 1972, the core of the RAF is finally arrested. Alongside Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Enslinn, Holger Meins, Jan Karl Raspe and Andreas Baader.
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On May 14, 1970, Andreas Baader was violently freed from a correctional facility in the West Berlin neighborhood of Tegel. This paved the way for the birth of the first generation of the Red Army Faction [ Rote Armee Fraktion or RAF], which crystallized around Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Holger Meins, und Jan-Carl Raspe.
