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June 1997 - Hosea Ché Dutschke, son of the late Rudi Dutschke, the sixties firebrand known as "Red" Rudi, and Lukas Ohnesorg, son of the slain leftist martyr Benno Ohnesorg, join Mai Horlemann, daughter of sixties Marxist theorist Jürgen Horlemann, on the 30th anniversary of the shooting of Ohnesorg. The gathering was arranged by Der Spiegel for an interview in the 5 June 1997 issue.
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post-1977
Post-1977, Federal Republic
After the deaths at Stammheim, Germans hope that the terrorist nightmare was over. Unfortunately many kidnappings and deaths are yet to come. Third, fourth, and fifth generations of the RAF are formed to replace their imprisoned and dead comrades. The Movement 2 June dissolves in 1980 and its remnants join forces with the RAF. The Revolutionary Cells (RZ) and their women's wing, Red Zora, continue to terrorize into the mid-1980s.
Through the late-seventies and eighties the West German terror groups pile up many victims. In the early-80s the RAF forms an association with the French terror group Action Directe. By the nineties time seems to have passed the left-wing terror groups behind. The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of Soviet Communism was intensely discouraging. By the early-nineties only the RAF remained. Several imprisoned members of the RAF called for a disbanding of the group in 1992, and many assumed that the RAF had ceased to exist.
A huge bomb that destroys a new Women's prison in Wieterstadt in 1993 also destroys any notion that the RAF has disbanded. But it would prove (for now at least) to be the RAF's swan song. In April of 1998, a communiqué sent to Reuters proved what many had long suspected: that the RAF was officially disbanded.
1 December, 1994, Hamburg
Irmgard Möller, the longest-jailed woman in a German prison and sole survivor of 1977's death night in Stammheim prison, walks out of Luebeck federal prison near Hamburg, a free woman. In poor health, she is released for medical reasons and because she no longer represents a threat to society. Möller had driven the explosive-laden car onto the U.S. Ar
my base in Heidelberg in 1972. The car blew up killing three people including Capt. Clyde Bonner, who left behind a young son. A week before Möller's release Bonner's son Charles, now a U.S. Air Force sergeant, is quoted by newspapers: "I think releasing her is ridiculous."
