Suicide by Ulrike Meinhof: She Concluded Her Self-Defence with the Words "RAF or Death"
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On 9 May 1976 Ulrike Meinhof was found dead in her cell. The former journalist had radicalized and had become the most famous face of the terrorist organization RAF, which kept Germany in breath in the 1970s. To this day, not all believe in suicide.
On Mother's Day in 1976, Germany's most famous terrorist Ulrike Meinhof committed suicide in her cell. Tensions between the prisoners in the "Trakt" had already increased for months.
Ulrike Meinhof, the ideologue of the communist-anarchist group Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), which radicalized from the student movements of 1968 into bloodthirsty terrorists, identified her opponent, the Federal Republic of Germany, as an imperialist state pig. She and her comrades set fires, robbed banks and people, and murdered. The leaders of the first generation of the RAF became victims of coordinated suicides, some say murders disguised as s…
In the late 1960s, fascists in the Bundestag, the Vietnam War, and police killings created a revolutionary atmosphere from which the Red Army Faction (RAF) emerged. On the 50th anniversary of the death of RAF founding member Ulrike Meinhof, we look back at a revolutionary biography that struck fear into the hearts of the imperialists. – A commentary by Leon Wandel. In the mid-1960s, the still-young Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) was in turmoi…
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