Abstract
his is how the story of Baader-Meinhof, the Red Army Faction (RAF, Rote Armee Fraktion), terrorism made-in-West Germany, begins. Gudrun Ensslin, future sphinx-like icon of the RAF,I is no longer satisfied in her relationship with writer Bernward Vesper, son of Nazi poet Will Vesper. In 1967 she leaves him for petty criminal and con artist Andreas Baader, a man not of the word but of the deed. In the meantime, star journalist Ulrike Meinhof, after an acrimonious divorce from husband and publisher Klaus Rainer R6hl, moves with her sixyear-old twin daughters from Hamburg to Berlin where-inevitablyshe meets Ensslin and Baader. Not accustomed to her new environ-
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