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...spasm in the 23-year-long war between Germany's Red Army Faction terrorists and the government. On June 27, operatives belonging to GSG-9, the country's antiterrorist unit, attempted to arrest suspects Wolfgang Grams, 40, and his girlfriend Birgit Hogefeld, 37, at the train station in Bad Kleinen, a small town in eastern Germany. Officials reported that as police closed in, Grams pulled a pistol, killed an officer and was then gunned down in the brief shootout that followed...
...accounts and leaks by investigators painted a picture of bungling, murder and cover-up. The scandal has ruined the careers of high government officials, and two GSG-9 men are under investigation for allegedly shooting Grams in cold blood as he lay helpless on track 4 of the Bad Kleinen station. The Red Army Faction, which had indicated that it might abandon violence, says it will resume its assassination tactics. The future of GSG-9 is in doubt, and Grams has become a martyr among young German leftists...
...events leading up to the Bad Kleinen incident began last year when Bonn issued a controversial appeal for a cease-fire to the R.A.F. Its leaders responded by promising to stop murdering high government and business officials. The overture, though, led to a lapse by the terrorists: they made contact with leftist sympathizers, who might serve as go-betweens in talks with the government. One was Klaus Steinmetz, 33. What the R.A.F. did not know was that Steinmetz had been a police informant for several years...
...made further contacts among the Red Army Faction leadership and on June 27 told GSG-9 he was to meet Hogefeld and Grams at the Bad Kleinen station. While Steinmetz and his R.A.F. companions sat talking in the station / restaurant, 54 officers deployed around the building to close in as the three departed. The police botched the job. When they pounced, they grabbed Hogefeld and Steinmetz, believing him to be Grams. Instead of fleeing, though, Grams drew a pistol from his waistband and opened fire. One officer was wounded; a second fell dead. Officers saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" from...
...dawn on April 26, 1945, a ruddy, round-faced young G.I., standing guard in front of the Allied lines at Bad Kleinen, Germany, watched two ragged figures approaching him. His orders were to turn back the civilians and defeated Nazi troops who were trying to escape the Russians, but these two were women, and he listened while one of them stated her case in broken English. She had just been released after five years in Ravensbrück concentration camp; before that she had spent two years in a Russian concentration camp. If the Russians caught her, she was through...
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