1 Associated Press, “New Terror Ring Smashed By Raids in German Cities,” European Stars and Stripes, February 5, 1974.

1 Jacobson, “Show Trial,” 17.

2 Letter from the RAF to the RAF prisoners, reprinted on page 338.

1 At the time, a little more than $8,000.

2 Ralf Reinders and Ronald Fritzch, Die Bewegung 2. Juni, (Berlin, Amsetrdam: ID-Archiv, 1995), 86.

3 The FRG approached Libya, Syria, and Ethiopia; all refused to take the prisoners.

4 Joe Stork, “Socialist Revolution in Arabia: A Report from the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen,” MERIP Reports 15 (March, 1973): 1-25. See also Maxine Molyneux, Aida Yafai, Aisha Mohsen, and Noor Ba’abad, “Women and Revolution in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen,” Feminist Review 1 (1979): 4-20.

5 Stork, 23.

6 Associated Press, “Kidnaped Berlin Political Figure is Released Unhurt,” Wisconsin State Journal, March 5, 1975.

1 Fred Halliday, Revolution and Foreign Policy: The Case of South Yemen 1967-1987 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 76-77. The aid had in fact been promised in 1967, but had been frozen when the Marxist-Leninist National Liberation Front had out-maneuvered the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (favoured by the imperialist countries) for power, and, in line with the Soviet position, refused to recognize West Berlin as part of the FRG

2 Time Magazine [online], “The Lorenz Kidnaping: A Rehearsal?” March 17, 1975.

3 Quoted in Richard Clutterbuck, “Terrorism and Urban Violence,” Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science 34, no. 4, The Communications Revolution in Politics (1982): 173.

4 Cobler, 193.

5 Ibid.

6 European Stars and Stripes, “Hunt for anarchists stepped up,” March 7, 1975.

7 Melvin J. Lasky, “Ulrike Meinhof & the Baader-Meinhof Gang,” Encounter 44 no. 6 (June, 1975): 23.

1 Halliday, 77. Roughly $3 million DM were eventually released as “emergency food aid” and pumps for Aden’s water supply.

2 Dellwo, 93.

3 Ibid., 10.

4 The MEK, or Mobiles Einsatz Kommando—similar to an American SWAT team.

5 Karrin Hanshew, “Militant Democracy, Civil Disobedience, and Terror: Political Violence and the West German Left during the ‘German Autumn,’ 1977” in War and Terror in Contemporary Historical Perspective, Harry and Helen Gray Humanities and Program Series 14, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies Humanities Volume 14, Johns Hopkins University 2003: 28.

6 Aust, 291.

7 The state and media claimed that the explosives went off due to some error on the part of the commando; the guerilla suggested that the MEK intentionally triggered the explosion.

1 Associated Press, “4 get life for attack at embassy,” European Stars and Stripes, July 21, 1977.

2 Thaddeus Kopinski, “From barroom brawls to bombings,” Post Herald and Register, April 27, 1975.

3 Cobler, 168.

4 Ibid.

5 Dellwo, 124.

1 Ibid. In terms of how the prisoners themselves felt about this action on their behalf, Dellwo recounts that during his first visit from Klaus Croissant, the lawyer passed on a thankful greeting from Meinhof: “Stockholm is the Diên Biên Phu of social democracy.”

2 Aust, 149.

3 Rote Armee Fraktion, 197.

4 Defense Attorney Siegfried Haag Goes Underground, see page 341.

5 Varon, 231, 268.