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A new Der Spiegel investigation into the killing of Benno Ohnesorg proves a police cover-up and implies that he may have been killed deliberately.
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Eight million Germans expressed a willingness to directly support the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Were they serious?
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Viva Maria: a fun 1965 Brigitte Bardot vehicle became the favorite film of radical West Germans. Why?
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has a precursor in a left-wing student movement in West Germany of the late 1960s.
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An interview with noted UK author and professor Carl Tighe on the conservative Springer Press (the hated enemy of the Baader-Meinhof Group) and the Springer Press’ relationship with Heinrich Böll.
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What happens when you decide to trade imprisoned terrorists for hostages? What message do you send to other terrorists?
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The strange saga of Ulrike Meinhof’s brain. How the brain of the world’s most famous terrorist ended up sitting on a doctor’s shelf for 25 years, and what we learned from it.
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Herbert Marcuse’s One Dimensional Man; Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, Carlos Marighella’s Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla. Three books that helped kickstart the Baader-Meinhof Group’s attempted revolution.
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A recent wave of leftist bombings in Berlin leaves Richard Huffman wondering if we are returning the the days of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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An interview with Allyn Phillips, friend and colleague to three US servicemen killed by the Baader-Meinhof Gang in Heidelberg in 1972.
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We compare how the US buried bin Laden with how the bodies of Ensslin, Raspe, and Baader were buried.
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The deadly Arizona shooting offers interesting and tragic parallels to the heated environment and rhetoric that helped give birth to the era of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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David Chesworth, Australian artist has a new exhibit exploring Gerhard Richter’s magisterial and controversial Baader-Meinhof cycle of paintings. I speak with Chesworth about his exhibit and the representation of history through art.
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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 wagen on the cover of this podcast is mine!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Memorial day tribute to Lt. Col. Paul Bloomquist, the first American victim of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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Forty years ago today Ulrike Meinhof helped break Andreas Baader from police custody, giving birth to the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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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.
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Interview with former West German Urban Guerrilla Michael “Bommi” Baumann. Pay attention to the moment when Richard realizes that this is the man who build the bombs that could have killed his parents.
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An interview with two of the directors of the sublime and wonderful Oscar-winning cartoon Logorama.
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Chuck Huffman and Vicki Burkholder, parents of the creator of baader-meinhof.com, talk about Chuck’s experience defusing West German terrorist bombs in the early 1970s.
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The infamous RAF logo makes a surprise appearance in an Oscar-winning short.
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The April 2010 arrest of Verena Becker puts the Baader-Meinhof Group back in the news.
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An interview with legendary British musician Luke Haines about his seminal 1996 concept album “Baader-Meinhof.”
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An interview with Larry David Young, witness to the tragic Baader-Meinhof bombing of the Frankfurt V Corp HQ in 1972. A very long talk with a very interesting man.
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Chris Cooley of the Tulsa band tHE pORTRAYL, talks about his interest in the Baader-Meinhof era and his song “Stammheim.”
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How did the term “Baader-Meinhof” come into common usage and why was it controversial?
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Author Martin Klimke talks about the German and American student movements of the 60s.
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Noted author Ron Jacobs talks about witnessing a Baader-Meinhof bombing, and his work documenting the Weather Underground.
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Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” was inspired by the Baader-Meinhof Gang; we discuss.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu talks about “Protagonist,” which features an extensive interview with former terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein.
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Professor Sarah Colvin talks about her fantastic new book exploring the language of Ulrike Meinhof.
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Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, discusses her first book “The Invisible Circus,” about a young woman who joins the Red Army Faction.
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