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Archival Baader-Meinhof era footage
Capture of Baader and Comrades in 1972
Source Der Deutsche Herbst Producer Speigel TV
Audio No Audio Length 0:49 Production Year 1997 Original Footage 1972
Description After a tense standoff, Andreas Baader, Holger Meins, and Jan-Carl Raspe are captured by police in Frankfurt. A police sharpshoot had put a bullet in Baader's leg.
Aftermath of 1972 bombing of Springer Offices
Source Baader-Meinhof: Wege in den Untergrund (documentary) Director Stefan Aust
Audio No Audio Length 0:49 Production Year 1985 Original Footage 1972
Description A commando unit led by Ulrike Meinhof leaves 6 bombs in the Hamburg offices of the hated Springer Press. Three do not explode, but three other do, injuring 17 press technicians. Meinhof is subjected to much internal criticism from Baader and others because three of the bombs failed to go off and because the injured people were part of the proletariat.
Offices of konkret magazine circa 1968
Source Baader-Meinhof: Wege in den Untergrund (documentary) Director Stefan Aust
Audio No Audio Length 0:49 Production Year 1985 Original Footage circa 1968
Description The cramped, cave-like Hamburg offices of konkret magazine, circa 1968. Ulrike Meinhof served as editor of konkret throughout much of the 1960s; her husband, Klaus Rainer Roehl, was the publisher. After secret subsidies from East Germany stopped in the mid-1960s, an injection of pornograhy alongside the leftist politics ensured considerable circulation success.
1968 Frankfurt firebombing and trial
Source Baader-Meinhof: Wege in den Untergrund (documentary) Director Stefan Aust
Audio No Audio Length 0:49 Production Year 1985 Original Footage circa 1968
Description In early April of 1968, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Thorwald Proll, and Horst Sohnlein placed firebombs in two Frankfurt department stores, causing considerable damage. They were quickly captured and turned the trial into a theater-peice.
Berlin riot at Springer Press Headquarters
Source Baader-Meinhof: Wege in den Untergrund (documentary) Director Stefan Aust
Audio No Audio Length 0:49 Production Year 1985 Original Footage 1968
Description Sparked by the attempted assasination of student leader Rudi Dutschke, leftists converged on the headquarters of the hated conservative press and rioted during Easter as the police fought them back. Ulrike Meinhof was in attendance and was arrested for using her car to blockade Springer newspaper trucks.
1972 News Story about Heidelberg Bomb at US Army Base
Source Baader-Meinhof: Wege in den Untergrund (documentary) Director Stefan Aust
Audio German/English Length 0:36 Production Year 1985 Original Footage 1977
Description An interview with an American witness to the 1972 bombing of the US Army base in Heidelberg, conducted the day following the attack.
