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...police commanded the outlaws to take off their clothes and come out one by one. Clad only in dark shorts, the first to surrender was Holger Meins, 30 (left), a key member of the notorious terrorist gang bossed by West Germany's "Bonnie und Clyde"-former Journalist Ulrike Meinhof, 37, and Student Revolutionary Andreas Baader, 29 (TIME, June 5). After a second man also surrendered, police rushed the garage, where they found a big prize. Baader was lying on the floor with a bullet wound in his left thigh (center, right). As he was carried to an ambulance, where...
...bombings appear to be tied to the notorious criminal gang led by West Germany's "Bonnie und Clyde" -sometime Journalist Ulrike Meinhof, 37, and Student Revolutionary Andreas Baader, 29 (TIME, Feb. 7). Meinhof and Baader, whose previous exploits included bank robberies, car thefts and shoot-outs with police, took credit for bombing the Army headquarters in Frankfurt. The explosion, they said in a message to the press, was intended as a protest against the Army's "extermination strategies in Viet Nam." Anarchist groups known to sympathize with the Baader-Meinhof gang claimed credit for three of the other...
...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...
Masked Figures. The origins of the gang go back to the student riots that swept West Germany and France in 1968. Then a member of "Red" Rudi Dutschke's S.D.S., Baader was caught throwing bombs into two Frankfurt department stores, causing nearly $700,000 in damages. Meinhof interviewed him in jail for Konkret and wrote approvingly of his "progressive" act. Two years later, Baader received permission from prison authorities to travel under guard to a Berlin library to do research. There Meinhof was seated at a table, pretending to read. Suddenly, two masked figures burst into the room, overpowered...