CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY BILL DUNNE

A WORD FROM RUSSELL “MAROON” SHOATS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TRANSLATORS’ NOTE

PREFACE

ACRONYM KEY

GERMAN TERMS

1 “DEMOCRACY” COMES TO DEUTSCHLAND:
POSTFASCIST GERMANY AND THE
CONTINUING APPEAL OF IMPERIALISM

not wanted in the model: the kpd

2 THE RE-EMERGENCE OF
REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN WEST GERMANY

the old left and the new reality

3 TAKING UP THE GUN

Faced With This Justice System, We Can’t Be Bothered Defending Ourselves
(Thorwald Proll, October 1968)

Build the Red Army! (June 5, 1970)

The Urban Guerilla Concept (April 1971)

4 BUILDING A BASE AND “SERVING THE PEOPLE”

the socialist patients’ collective

Andreas Baader: Letter to the Press (January 24, 1972)

Serve the People: The Urban Guerilla and Class Struggle (April 1972)

on the treatment of traitors

This is Edelgard Graefer… (March 27, 1972)

5 THE MAY OFFENSIVE:
BRINGING THE WAR HOME

For the Victory of the People of Vietnam (May 14, 1972)

Attacks in Augsburg and Munich (May 16, 1972)

Attack on Judge Buddenberg (May 20, 1972)

Attack on the Springer Building (May 20, 1972)

Attack on the Heidelberg Headquarters of the U.S. Army in Europe (May 25, 1972)

To the News Editors of the West German Press (May 28, 1972)

Regarding the Fascist Bomb Threats Against Stuttgart (May 29, 1972)

Statement to the Red Aid Teach-In (May 31, 1972)

6 BLACK SEPTEMBER:
A STATEMENT FROM BEHIND BARS

the appeal of the fedayeen: to all the free people of the world

The Black September Action in Munich: Regarding the Strategy for Anti-Imperialist Struggle (November 1972)

7 STAYING ALIVE: SENSORY DEPRIVATION,
TORTURE, AND THE STRUGGLE BEHIND BARS

the lawyers

horst mahler after the raf

Ulrike Meinhof on the Dead Wing (1972–3, 1973–4)

Second Hunger Strike (May 8, 1973)

Provisional Program of Struggle for the Political Rights of Imprisoned Workers (September 1974)

Third Hunger Strike (September 13, 1974)

The Expulsion of Horst Mahler (Monika Berberich, September 27, 1974)

Holger Meins’ Report on Force-Feeding (October 11, 1974)

Holger Meins’ Last Letter (November 1, 1974)

Interview with Spiegel Magazine (January 1975)

Andreas Baader Regarding Torture (June 18, 1975)

8 A DESPERATE BID TO FREE THE PRISONERS:
THE STOCKHOLM ACTION

Letter from the RAF to the RAF Prisoners (February 2, 1975)

Occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm (April 24, 1975)

Defense Attorney Siegfried Haag Goes Underground (May 11, 1975)

9 SHADOW BOXING:
COUNTERING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE

“We know why he’s saying it” (Brigitte Mohnhaupt, July 22, 1976)

On the Liberation of Andreas Baader (Ulrike Meinhof, September 13, 1974)

The Bombing of the Bremen Train Station (December 9, 1974)

The Nature of the Stammheim Trial: The Prisoners Testify (August 19, 1975)

No Bomb in Munich Central Station (September 14, 1975)

The Bombing of the Hamburg Train Station (September 23, 1975)

The Bombing of the Cologne Train Station (November 1975)

10 THE MURDER OF ULRIKE MEINHOF

ulrike’s brain

meinhof: the suicide-murder debate

Jan-Carl Raspe: On the Murder of Ulrike Meinhof (May 11, 1976)

Fragment Regarding Structure (Ulrike Meinhof, 1976)

Two Letters to Hanna Krabbe (Ulrike Meinhof, March 19 & 23, 1976)

Letter to the Hamburg Prisoners (Ulrike Meinhof, April 13, 1976)

Interview with Le Monde Diplomatique (June 10, 1976)

11 MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE ON THE LEFT…
(AN INTERMISSION OF SORTS)

12 & BACK TO THE RAF…

RZ Letter to the RAF Comrades (December 1976)

Monika Berberich Responds to the Alleged RZ Letter (January 10, 1977)

Andreas Baader: On the Geneva Convention (June 2, 1977)

13 DARING TO STRUGGLE, FAILING TO WIN

Fourth Hunger Strike (March 29, 1977)

The Assassination of Attorney General Siegfried Buback (April 7, 1977)

Statement Calling Off the Fourth Hunger Strike (April 30, 1977)

The Assassination of Jürgen Ponto (August 14, 1977)

Statement Breaking Off the Fifth Hunger Strike (September 2, 1977)

The Attack on the BAW (September 3, 1977)

The Schleyer Communiqués (September–October, 1977)

Operation Kofr Kaddum (SAWIO, October 13, 1977)

SAWIO Ultimatum (October 13, 1977)

Final Schleyer Communiqué (October 19, 1977)

77: living with the fallout

14 THE STAMMHEIM DEATHS

15 ON THE DEFENSIVE

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I: EXCERPTS FROM THE
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG

APPENDIX II: THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RAF PRISONERS

APPENDIX III: THE FRG AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL

APPENDIX IV: THE GENEVA CONVENTION: EXCERPTS

APPENDIX V: STRANGE STORIES:
PETER HOMANN AND STEFAN AUST

APPENDIX VI: THE GERMAN GUERILLA’S
PALESTINIAN ALLIES: WADDI HADDAD’S PFLP (EO)

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ARMED STRUGGLE IN W. GERMANY: A CHRONOLOGY

NOTE ON SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX