The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History, Volume 1 (120 page)

1
Associated Press, “Terror Suspect Nabbed,”
The Times
, August 2, 1977.

2
Aust, 418.

3
Ibid., 411-412.

4
Associated Press, “Radical lawyer’s office bombed,”
Oakland Tribune
, August 15, 1977.

5
Bakker Schut,
Stammheim
, 472.

6
Frankfurter Rundschau
, August 15, 1977, quoted in “The Stammheim Deaths,”
Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review
, no. 4.

7
Aust, 414-5.

1
The Attack on the BAW, see pages 496-97.

2
Statement Calling Off the Fifth Hungerstrike, see page 495.

3
Associated Press, “Schleyer No Friend of Socialists, Unions,”
Abilene-Reporter News
, October 20, 1977.

4
Schleyer had joined the SS in 1933, just two months after his eighteenth birthday. A committed fascist, he held several important positions in the Nazi Student Association before and during the war. In 1943, he began working for the Central Federation of Industry for Bohemia and Moravia, where he was in charge of “Germanizing” the economy of Czechoslovakia. Following the Nazi defeat, he was captured by French forces and imprisoned for three years, classified as a “fellow traveler” by the denazification authorities. He was released in 1949 and used his experience during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia to get hired to the foreign trade desk in the Baden-Baden Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (Heike Friesel, “Schleyer, a German Story,” Litrix.de: German Literature Online, translated by Philip Schmitz,
http://www.litrix.de/buecher/sachbuecher/
jahr/2004/schleyer/enindex.htm
)

1
The Guerilla, the Resistance, and the Anti-Imperialist Front.
This text will appear in our second volume,
The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History, Volume II: Dancing with Imperialism: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.

2
Ibid.

3
Hanshew, 28.

4
Cobler, 144.

5
Ibid., 145.

6
Hanshew, 26, 43.

7
Bakker Schut,
Stammheim
, 490.

1
While sitting in the
Bundestag
for the SPD, Wischnewski had acted as an interlocutor with the Algerians during the National Liberation Front’s war for independence from France, and had been a public critic of Adenauer’s hardline pro-French policy in that conflict. He later negotiated the release and free transit of Germans arrested during the Pinochet coup in Chile, as well as free transit out of the country for Chileans who had taken refuge in foreign embassies.

2
Richard Clutterbuck, 173.

3
Halliday, 77-78.

4
Associated Press, “Dutch capture German terrorist,”
Lima News
, September 23, 1977.

5
Akache had already cut his teeth as a guerilla earlier that year in London, England. On April 10, 1977, he had assassinated Qadi Abdullah Amhen al Hijri, the former Prime Minister of North Yemen, along with his wife Fatima and senior diplomatic official Abdullah Ali Al Hammami (Aust, 510). Al Hijri, who had had dozens of political dissidents put to death and thousands more imprisoned during his brief reign, was a traditionalist who strongly opposed any rapprochement with South Yemen. (
News Journal
, “Leftists suspected: Former Yemen Premier Killed,” April 11, 1977)

6
See pages 438-441. Also see, Appendix VI—The German Guerilla’s Palestinian Allies: Waddi Haddad’s PFLP (EO), on pages 559-61.

1
Butz Peters, “Landshut-Befreiung: Die RAF erleidet ihre größte Niederlage,”
Welt Online
, October 14, 2007.

2
Oliver Schröm “Im Schatten des Schakals. Carlos und die Wegbereiter des internationalen Terrorismus,” 9.
http://www.lavocatdelaterreur.com/pdf/Im%20Schatten%20des%20Schakals.pdf
.

3
Wisniewski, 26.

4
One far-right anti-RAF source claims that Siegfried Haag and Elisabeth von Dyck had first entered into contact with the PFLP (EO) in 1976, after being rebuffed by both Arafat’s Fatah and Habash’s PFLP. While we do not share this source’s perspective, this version of events seems credible. 2008-World Journal, untitled, at
http://soc.world-journal.net/18sept2008spywars2.html
.

5
“Terrorism expert” and
Stern
journalist Oliver Schröm states that cooperation between the PFLP (EO) and the RAF had been made difficult in the past specifically by Andreas Baader, who opposed carrying out attacks outside of the Federal Republic. (Schröm, 9)

6
While hostages were taken during the Stockholm occupation in 1975, only government representatives, not civilians, were killed. While the distinction may seem to be a fine one, it was considered important by the RAF and its supporters.

7
Dellwo, 133.

8
Aust, 525.

9
Richard L. Strout, “Countdown to a Crisis: Is Nuclear Terrorism Next?”
Fresno Bee
, October 26, 1977.

10
Mike Ryan, “The Stammheim Model—Judicial Counter-Insurgency,”
New Studies on the Left
14, no. 1 & 2 (1989).

1
Fred Halliday states that the PDRY’s reticence to get involved was due to the fallout from their having agreed to provide refuge to the prisoners exchanged for Lorenz in 1975. Stefan Wisniewski has a very different view of the matter: given the PDRY’s good relations with the Palestinian resistance, he feels that the only reason Aden could have had to refuse the hijackers permission to land would have been foreign pressure, either from the GDR or the Soviet Union. (Wisniewski, 27)

2
Aust, 520.

3
Ryan, 64.

1
The Guerilla, the Resistance, and the Anti-Imperialist Front
. This text will appear in our second volume,
The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History
,
Volume II: Dancing with Imperialism: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.

2
See Appendix IV—The Geneva Convention: Excerpts, pages 554-56.

1
Starting with a few dozen prisoners in February, within a month hundreds of Palestinian prisoners had joined a hunger strike throughout Israel’s prisons, and outside support was offered by left-wing Arab and Jewish organizations. The basic demands were better conditions and an end to racist discrimination within the prisons, whereby Jewish prisoners received preferential treatment in regards to food and visits. [Journal of Palestine Studies, “Strike of Arab Prisoners in Israel,”
Journal of Palestine Studies
7, no. 1 (Autumn, 1977): 169-171].

2
Twenty IRA prisoners were hunger striking at the time against brutal conditions at Ireland’s Maximum Security Portlaoise prison. The strike lasted forty-seven days before it was ended by the intervention of the Catholic hierarchy.

3
The ETA is the Basque separatist guerilla. At the time, there was a mass militant movement demanding amnesty for hundreds of Basque and antifascist political prisoners in Spain, many of whom had been incarcerated due to their activities against the fascist Franco dictatorship.

1
Agnes Steinbauer, “Tod in Stammheim,”
Deutschlandradio
[online], May 9, 2006.

2
Karl-Heinz Dellwo, interview by Axel Vornbäumen, “Ich bin kein Pazifist,”
tagespiegel
[online], March 26, 2007.

1
Ron Augustin, “Der zweite Tod,”
Junge Welt
[online], September 10, 2007.

2
Text from an untitled movement flier widely distributed in the years following the Stammheim deaths. Möller has repeated these facts numerous times since.

3
Associated Press, “3 Terrorist Deaths Ruled ‘a Collective Suicide,’”
European Stars and Stripes,
February 25, 1978.

4
Der Stammheimtod: Kampagne gegen das Modell Deutschland,
no. 4, Bochum, December 1977, 5.

1
Aust, 379-380.

2
Peter Henkel, “Milde Urteile für Volker Speitel und Hans-Joachim Dellwo,”
Frankfurter Rundschau
[online], December 15, 1978; Martin Knobbe, “Der Ankläger und sein Informant,”
Stern
[online], April 27, 2007.

3
Augustin, “Der zweite Tod.”

1
Der Stammheimtod
, 13-14.

2
Aust, 549.

3
In this regard see Aust, 432, 482-483, 487-488, 496-497, 550-552. Regarding the possibility that police might have learned of guns in Stammheim from Volker Speitel as early as October 4, see Aust, 484. It should be noted that although Aust claims to believe the prisoners committed suicide, he emphasizes that there remain serious inconsistencies in the official version of events, including evidence pointing to the possibility that Baader was shot by a gun with a silencer on it, which would mean that the murder weapon was removed after he was killed (Aust, 547), and also that guards lied when they claimed Möller had lifted her sweater before allegedly stabbing herself (Aust, 548), a “fact” which the state claimed proved suicide as an assassin would not have tried to spare the victim’s clothing.

1
Aust, 489.

2
Ryan, 66.

3
Informationsdienst
, no. 202, November 5, 1977, quoted in
Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review,
“The Stammheim Deaths.”

4
Aust, 526.

5
Ibid., 528.

6
Commission internationale d’enquête sur la mort d’Ulrike Meinhof, 67.

7
Ibid., 55-58.

1
Ibid., 68.

2
Internazionale Kommission zum Schutz der Gefangenen une Gegen Isolationshaft
, 4.

3
Ryan, 66.

4
Mary Campbell, “History’s coldest winter wrote top story for ’77,”
Lima News,
December 27, 1977.

5
United Press International, “Italian Leftists Continue Their Reign of Terror,”
El Paso Herald-Post,
October 26, 1977.

6
Associated Press, “Schleyer Found Dead,”
Danville Register,
October 20, 1977.

1
Associated Press, “Extremists Protest Deaths of 3 German Prisoners,”
Amarillo Globe Times,
October 19, 1977.

2
United Press International, “Leftist Terrorists Vow to Foul German Economy,”
Coshocton Tribune,
October 22, 1977.

3
United Press International, “Deaths of W. German Terrorists Protested with Bombings, Student Riot,”
Valley News,
October 21, 1977.

4
Associated Press, “Industrialist’s Killers Sought,”
Wisconsin State Journal,
October 21, 1977.

5
United Press International, “Terrorists Bomb German Property,”
Ruston Daily Leader,
October 24, 1977.

6
United Press International, “Leftists Continue Terror Reign,”
Salina-Journal,
October 24, 1977.

7
United Press International, “Leftist terrorists vow to foul German economy.”

8
United Press International, “Terrorists Bomb German Property.”

9
United Press International, “Protests Sweep Three Nations,”
Valley News,
October 27, 1977.

10
United Press International, “Italian Radicals Say Suicide Squad Will Kill West German Ambassador,”
Galveston Daily News,
October 26, 1977.

11
Ibid.

12
United Press International, “Deaths of W. German Terrorists Protested with Bombings, Student Riot.”

13
United Press International, “Protests Sweep Three Nations.”

14
United Press International, “Gang Kidnaps Dutch Millionaire,”
Kingsport Times News,
October 29, 1977.

15
United Press International, “Caransa Released After Ransom Paid,”
Coshocton Times,
November 2, 1977.

16
Bridgeport Telegram,
“Large ransom frees Viennese millionaire,” Nov. 14, 1977.

1
George Jackson Brigade, “You Can Kill a Revolutionary But You Can’t Kill the Revolution,” November 1, 1977.
http://www.gjbip.org/comm_teeth.htm
.

2
Associated Press, “Lufthansa Airlines Flying Anti-Missile Patterns,”
Florence Morning News,
November 15, 1977.

3
Vittorfranco S. Pisano, “Terrorism in Italy, March 27, 1978,” Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/bg56.cfm
.

4
Kingsport-Times,
“West Germans Take Seriously Terrorist Threat on Schmidt,” October 22, 1977.

5
United Press International, “Terrorist Bomb Blasts Building in W. Germany,”
Ogden Standard-Examiner,
October 31, 1977.

6
Associated Press, “Bonn: terrorist death was suicide,”
Modesto Bee,
November 14, 1977.

7
United Press International, “Crusade against terrorism urged,”
Newport Daily News,
October 25, 1977.

8
Hanshew, 29-30

9
Associated Press, “German Leftists, Police Battle after Paper Raided,”
Waterloo Courier,
October 24, 1977.

1
François Dosse,
History of Structuralism
(Minneapolis: University of Minnestota Press, 1998), 337.

2
Bakker Schut,
Stammheim,
533-534.

3
Libération,
“1000 croissants pour un avocat,” October 10, 1977.

4
Libération,
“Klaus Croissant et la raison d’État,” October 10, 1977.

5
Bakker Schut,
Stammheim,
532-533.

6
United Press International, “Germans Ask Japan Help Tracking Killers,”
Newport (R.I.) Daily News,
November 12, 1977.

7
In 1988, RAF prisoners Knut Folkerts, Rolf Heissler, Sieglinde Hofmann, Christian Klar, Christine Kuby, Roland Mayer, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Adelheid Schulz, GÜnter Sonnenberg, and Rolf Clemens Wagner signed a joint declaration about Boock, his drug habit and his lies. They explained that when he joined the guerilla he claimed to have been diagnosed with intestinal cancer, and that he only had a short while to live. He explained away his drug use, insisting it was to deal with the pain from his cancer. It was only when he was examined by doctors in Yugoslavia in mid-1978 that it came to light that he had never had cancer, he was simply a junkie lying to manipulate his friends into getting him dope. [
Boock’s Lies
(August 1988). This text will appear in our second volume,
The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History, Volume II: Dancing with Imperialism: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.
]