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...Bonnie" is Ulrike Meinhof, 37, a slim, tough-faced divorcee who was once the editor of the leftist monthly magazine Konkret. "Clyde" is Andreas Baader, 28, a personable art-school dropout, Lothario of sorts, and sometime student revolutionary. Accompanied by a fluctuating number of associates (as many as 23 at times), the Baader-Meinhof gang during the past two years has pulled a string of bank robberies and car thefts, and has had shootouts with police in half a dozen cities. The toll so far: one policeman killed and another seriously injured, two gang members killed...
Unlike the real Bonnie and Clyde, who robbed banks mostly for the hell of it, Baader and Meinhof are far-left political revolutionaries who turned to crime as a way of waging war against bourgeois society. As Meinhof put it in a clandestine interview published by Der Spiegel, "What we want to do and show is that armed confrontation is feasible-that it is possible to carry out actions where we win, and not the other side. Cops have to be fought as representatives of the system. Cops are pigs, not human beings...
Clergymen of the area tend to blame such doings on religious apathy. "Church customs have mostly become hardened forms of hollow traditions," says Pastor Wolfgang Baader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. "He who does not believe in God must fear the Devil." But though authorities shake their heads at witch talk, they shrug their shoulders over what to do about it and point to the case of Farmer Bading of Lüneberg Heath. Hannes Bading called in a witch doctor to fix up his ailing stock, his failing crops, his drying well. The Hexenmeister sold him some "letters from...
...story opens in Paris, October 6, 1908, early in the morning. Actress Germaine Baader is asleep in her bedroom. Schoolmaster Clanricard talks to his pupils about the threat of an European war. Apprentice Wazemmes grinds paint in a Montmartre workshop. Juliette Ezzelin leaves a book to be bound at Quinette's. Few minutes after she has left a murderer bursts into Quinette's shop, asks if he may wash his hands. Clanricard goes to lunch with his old master Sampeyre, Germaine Baader wakes up, Wazemmes goes to the races. Gurau, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Germaine...