The sporty, economical little BMW 2002 became forever linked with the the Baader-Meinhof Gang after it became their supposed car of choice to steal, earning it the nickname “the Baader-Meinhof Wagen.” The car pictured on the cover of this podcast is my own personal little yellow Baader-Meinhof Wagen.
Publicly, Siegfried Haag was a lawyer for the Red Army Faction. But secretly he was the de facto head of the terrorist organization, planning violent actions across the Federal Republic.
Fritz Teuful, co-founder of Kommune 1, clown prince of the Berlin student movement, and inspiration of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, died this week at 67. Read the obituary in the Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/0710/1224274417063.html.
Robert Storr, dean of the Yale Graduate school of Art and formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, discusses his acquisition of Gerhard Richter’s famous cycle of Baader-Meinhof-inspired paintings for MoMA.
A memorial day tribute to Lt. Col. Paul Bloomquist, the first American victim of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
Forty years ago today Ulrike Meinhof helped break Andreas Baader from police custody, giving birth to the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
An interview with author Hans Kundnani about his new book, “Utopia or Auschwitz,” an exploration of the complicated relationship of the German ’68er generation and the Holocaust.
An interview with former West German Urban Guerrilla Michael “Bommi” Baumann.
An interview with Baader-Meinhof bombing victim Peter Glyer.
An interview with two of the directors of the sublime and wonderful cartoon Logorama.
