All language subtitles for The.Baader.Meinhof.Complex.2008.GERMAN.EXTENDED.1080p.BluRay.x265-VXT_eng

SYLT
JUNE 1967

Hello!

Come on now,
sweethearts, out of the water!

Oh, mama, just a little more!

You're coming
out now, right away!

You are already blue.

Oh, she's pretty, who are they?

This is the Shah of
Persia and his wife.

Ah, my three graces.

Dad, what is a shah?

It's something like an emperor.

A shah is allowed to chop off the
head of all people he doesn't like!

Come on, don't always tell
the children such nonsense.

Truth is reasonable for man.

You can't joke with
something like that.

Hello Klaus.

So, how's the revolution going?

At the moment - on vacation.

You will come to our
party later, won't you?

Sure we will.

Well, see you then.

Yes.

Oh, Klaus, stop doing that.

Woohoo!

- Yes, you see, there we go!
- You're totally getting on our nerves.

Yes, not bad either,
at least she's smiling.

The Shah and Empress
Farah had landed at 11:05 a.m.

with a special flight
at Tempelhof Airport.

Upon arrival Empress Farah wore a fox-red
complet with a black and white striped hat.

Stefan.

Hello, Stefan!

During the presentation march,

Shah Reza Pahlavi inspected
the honor guard of Berlin's police force.

Stefan, my friend.

Fresh off the presses.

Okay.

Everybody listen up.

My star columnist

and smart wife has written an open
letter to Her Majesty Farah Diba.

Now don't make
a show of it again.

Come on, Ricky Baby.

This will be published in the
next issue of Konkret.

But 5,000 of these leaflets have already
been distributed at the universities.

Alright then.

"Good day Mrs. Pahlavi.

You tell about your Iranian homeland
that it's very hot there in summertime.

And you, like most Persians,
go to the Caspian Sea with your family.

'Like most Persians.'

Isn't that an exaggeration?

Most Persians are farmers with an
annual income of less than 100 Marks.

And most Persian women

lose every second child
to hunger, poverty, and disease.

And also the children who weave
carpets in 14-hour days, do they too,

most of them, go to the Persian Riviera
on the Caspian Sea in the summer?

You write that the Shah
of Persia must have a son.

The Iranian constitution,
you write, is very strict about this.

Strange that the Shah is otherwise
so unconcerned about the constitution

that not a single uncensored line
may be published in Persia.

That Mossadegh's minister of
justice's eyes were torn out.

That court trials are held to
the exclusion of the public.

That torture is part of everyday
life in the Persian judiciary.

We don't want to insult you.

But we also do not wish

the German public to be insulted by
articles like yours in the "Neue Revue".

Yours respectfully,
Ulrike Meinhof."

Long live the Shah!

Shah, shah, charlatan!
Shah, shah, charlatan!

Shah, Shah, charlatan!

Murderer!

Shah, shah, charlatan!

Tyrant!

Is he crazy or what?

Fascists!

Are you crazy?

Man, do something.

Don't touch me, motherfucker!

Hey, stop it!

Is there a doctor
around here somewhere?

- Is there a doctor around here?
- Let us through here!

- We need a doctor!
- See what's going on here!

Are you guys stupid or what?
Just look at that woman!

Can you help us?
We have an injured person here!

What are you doing?

It just went off on me.

Are you insane?

Let's get out of here.

He needs a doctor.

It went on very peacefully and very
privately at a fashion reception in a...

Has anyone seen my husband?

It was the personal wish of
the Persian empress to get an

overview of the achievements
in the fashionable field in Berlin...

Where is the bath?

Up the stairs.

Hello Ricky baby.

I didn't mean to interrupt.

They shot one of us!

They shot one of us!

Hey, listen up!

The cops shot one of us!

What do you mean by that?

They just shot him down!

These fascists
want to kill us all!

This is the generation of Auschwitz,
you can't argue with them!

They have weapons and we don't.

We have to arm ourselves!

Mrs. Meinhof, you have taken the
side of the demonstrating students.

Why?

In the right-wing press,
the blame for the disaster on June 2nd

has been put on
the students themselves.

The Springer group in
particular tries in its newspaper

to demonize the critical voices of
the student body as rowdies and rioters.

"For these rowdies, noise is no
longer enough, they need to see blood."

But the truth is that the
protests of these students

have exposed our
state as a police state.

That police and press terror
reached its peak on June 2nd in Berlin.

And that we have realized
that freedom in this state

is freedom for the
police's truncheons.

But Mrs. Meinhof,
with all due respect.

We all know that Kurras shot Ohnesorg
dead and that Kurras will be acquitted.

This is pure demagogy.

This...

this is demagogy.

BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM

While America is discussing the
use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam,

Israel, with the help of the Americans,
is plunging into a war of aggression,

which is shamelessly dubbed
here as a preemptive war.

I think it's Israel's right
to defend its country.

Then I guess Hitler's attacks on Poland,
France and Russia were also preemptive.

That's completely one-sided.

This is not the way
to discuss, Mrs. Meinhof,

with all due respect,
I must say.

Now, please take the
child into consideration.

This woman is not
having a factual discussion.

How can you say such a thing?

American imperialism
will stop at nothing!

First Vietnam, Bolivia
and now the Middle East.

America has been pumping
Israel full of weapons for years.

Every combat aircraft,
every missile, every tank,

everything comes from the US and
the Western industrialized countries.

Do you think the Americans are
doing this out of humanitarianism?

Those bastards are just doing it to
control the oil fields in the Middle East.

Now leave it!

They don't give a damn if tens of
thousands of people kick the bucket.

I'm sorry, I have
to go to church now.

Yes? But then also preach that
over half the world's population

don't have enough to eat,
while others bathe themselves in luxury.

That there is no point in
just praying for a better world!

That they have to
fucking fight back!

You should get married soon.

Ulrike, wait!

Wait!

At last.

Hello baby!

Well, Kitty?

So, here we go.

I hope that's enough.

What are you doing?

Why?

- Like this.
- Hey!

What?

Well, I think we want to scorch
the department store, not torch it!

Only hard actions get you somewhere,
otherwise you can shit on it.

The wankers have to
understand that we ain't bluffing.

What if there are still
people in the store?

Now don't act like
some half-gay chick.

Who's going to be in there
in the middle of the night?

And if there is,
then there's a fatter headline.

- Are you crazy or what?
- Shut the fuck up!

Andreas knows what he's doing.

Open up already!

All right.

On my way.

Police, you're under arrest.

Police.

What's going on, man?

Police. Get up, put your
hands behind your back!

- You are under arrest for arson.
- Hey, hey, hey!

Good morning.

Under the continuing bombardment of
U.S. planes on alleged Viet Cong positions,

the civilian population
suffers most,

The harrowing images have
prompted student protests in the U.S.,

especially at universities.

Thousands are also demonstrating
against the Vietnam War in West Germany,

as here in Berlin,
where anarchist Rudi Dutschke,

head of the extraparliamentary opposition,
is mobilizing resistance.

Comrades, we don't
have much time left!

In Vietnam, we are
being crushed every day!

Vietnam is in tragic loneliness!

It is not a matter, says Che,

of wishing success to
the victim of aggression,

but of participating
in his fate.

To accompany it either
to death or to victory.

From German soil...

From German soil wars
are still being prepared!

The Germans help and garrison towns are
turned by the American military power

into bases for the
war in Vietham!

We will not allow the German
government to be abused

by the Americans as a henchman
for their imperialist war in Vietnam!

Rudi.

- You're Ulrike Meinhof, right?
- Yes.

That forces us to start legally not
legitimate actions, sabotage and blockade!

We protest against
this conference!

Ladies and gentlemen,
this conference is over!

Get lost!

Reactionary!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!

Are you Rudi Dutschke?

Yes, I am.

You dirty communist pig!

He has a gun, get down!

He is dead. Let him live.

Father, mother, I have
to go to the hairdresser.

I have to go to the hairdresser.

Look at that.

When it comes to dying,
that one also calls for father and mother.

He went down there!

He hast to be here somewhere!

Take cover!

Come out with your hands up!

I can't stand communists.

Rudi Dutschke is undergoing yet
another emergency surgery at the hour.

According to doctors, one of the two
bullets could be removed from his head.

Meanwhile, young people are forming
demonstrations across the country,

accusing the Springer
publishing group of being complicit

in the assassination
attempt against Rudi Dutschke.

Springer, murderers!

Springer, murderers!

Springer, murderers!
Springer, murderers!

Rudi Dutschke! Rud...

I would't have thought that
you'd be part in something like this!

This is the police...

You are illegally trespassing
on private property!

Leave the premises immediately!

Leave the premises immediately!

Come with us!

Mrs. Meinhof?

What are you doing here?

Release her!
Mrs. Meinhof is a journalist.

You fucking cops.

Dresden!

Hiroshima!

Vietnam!

Dresden!

Hiroshima!

Vietnam!

In a battle with the
Bolivian army and the CIA

Che Guevara was captured
and then murdered.

Yesterday, Martin Luther King fell
victim to an assassination attempt.

Republican candidate Richard Nixon becomes
the 37th President of the United States.

On Mexico City's Square
of the Three Cultures,

5,000 students and
workers demonstrate.

2,000 soldiers sealed off the
square and fired into the crowd.

...With up to 500 dead.

...with the first
Soviet vehicles.

Half an hour later came 100...

Students have described the events in
Paris these days as a cultural revolution.

The state speaks of anarchy.

The more I hear
clamor of this sort,

the clearer it becomes to me how necessary
it is to establish order in our country.

In agreement with Andreas Baader,
I'd like to make a statement.

He and I did this in the
Schneider department store.

We placed the incendiary device.

We did it to protest

the apathy with which people
watch the genocide in Vietnam.

We learned that talk
without action is wrong.

Silence, please!

Silence, please!

Mr. Mahler...

Mr. Mahler, could you
do the Court the honor

of letting it participate
in your conversation?

I don't suspect that
the judges are able

to comprehend the thinkings
of Miss Ensslin and Mr. Baader.

Otherwise, you would
have to take off your robes

and head the protest movement.

Silence!

Silence, please!

As father of Gudrun you
belong to the generation

which your daughter
wanted to admonish.

What she wanted to say is this:

A generation that experienced first
hand how, in the name of the people,

concentration camps
are built, anti-Semitism, genocide,

cannot allow that new beginning,
reformation, new birth are wasted.

How was your relationship
with your daughter

before the crime
and how is it now?

For me it was
astonishing that Gudrun,

who always thought very
rationally and cleverly,

almost reached the state of a euphoric
self-realization as a result of the deed.

Of a sacred self-realization.

I sense that with her deed she has achieved
something liberating, even in the family.

Suddenly I feel myself freed
from a constriction and also fear

that had determined
my life before.

She released me from my fears.

If you throw one stone,
it's a punishable offense.

If 1,000 stones are thrown,
it is a political action.

If you set a car on fire,
it's a punishable offense.

If hundreds of cars are set
on fire, it is a political action.

Protest is when I say such
and such doesn't suit me.

Resistance is when I ensure that what
doesn't suit me no longer takes place.

Thank you for
making that possible.

That's okay.

I'm familiar with your columns.

Do you think that with actions
like the department store fire,

you can stop the
genocide in Vietnam??

No.

In that sense the
action was a mistake.

But I have already
said that in court.

Look at it as rebellion.

This time we won't sit idly as
Fascism spreads like under Hitler.

This time we will
put up resistance.

We have a historical
responsibility.

The people in our country and in America,
they have to eat, eat and shop,

so they don't ever
get the idea to reflect.

So that they just don't
come to consciousness.

Otherwise they might have
to do something at some point.

Is that why you set fire
to the department store?

I will never resign myself to
the fact that nothing is done.

Never.

If they shoot our people
like Ohnesorg and Dutschke,

then we will shoot
back in the future.

That is only consistent.

You can't be serious.

All over the world, comrades are
fighting with guns in their hands.

We must declare
solidarity with them.

But we do.

Even if the Fascists
throw you in jail for it?

Such sacrifices have to be made.

Or maybe you think that your theoretical
masturbation will change anything?

Sorry, I didn't
mean it like that.

I have something
for you, assholes!

Stop it, there is no point!

Do you see that?

Come on! Come on!

I'm burning! I'm burning!

Cop, are you afraid
of fire or what?

Smoke them!

Tear gas!

Is Baader or Gudrun here?

Gudrun's upstairs.

Oh, sorry.

Hello.

Who are you?

My name is Peter Boock.

I am Gudrun.

Did you run away?

Youth detention center.

Same as the others.

They are all coming to us now,

we are putting together
something ourselves here.

Can I take a bath later?

Come on in, no waste of water.

You can tell me about yourself.

Where did you get that?

Gllckstadt juvi.

I heard about it, you guys
almost burned the place down.

The scumbags almost
beat us to death for it.

If they catch me,
I won't get out until I'm 21.

Don't worry, you're family now.

You guys got busted for
arson, right?

Yes, we did.

But they let us out
pending the appeal.

One of the conditions was
that we do social work.

And we are doing that now.

I think that's great.

Andreas and I might have to disappear
again in case our appeal is rejected.

Tell me, am I seeing this right?

You want to fuck my woman?

Hey, Kitty?

Ey!

Andreas, this is Peter.

What happened to you?

He got that from the bastard
educators in Glicksstadt.

We'll tear them a new ass, too.

Great leather jacket.

Here, you can have it.

And now get going, we're
going to Darmstadt. We'll party!

We don't have enough cars.

Oh, then we'll steal
two more. Or three.

Only a gun makes it fun!

Go ahead! Fire away!

Fire away!

WIESBADEN
FEDERAL CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICE

Our people need extraordinary
effort to understand each other.

We want to dare more democracy.

These words by the new Chancellor
Willy Brandt at his inauguration,

reconcile the student body and
end the riots in the Federal Republic

which have been going
on for almost three years.

His promises of reform had a
calming effect at universities

and create the basis for integrating
the extraparliamentary opposition

into the democratic processes.

And what do you think?

I think the spook is over.

The mass movement has
long lost its momentum.

You see, I don't think that.

I think that groups that
find the conditions oppressive,

and I mean
existentially oppressive,

will not hesitate to
throw bombs at what

they see as the society's
rigid mentality.

ROME
FEBRUARY 1970

Look,

are you looking for us?

Gudrun?

Andreas.

Hello Astrid.

The lawyer.

And? What are your plans now?
What should be the next steps?

Say, can't you talk normally?

Or do you think that
all Interpol is after us,

just because those bums in
Frankfurt rejected our appeal?

Anyway, Andreas and I
are not going back to jail.

Then come back
to Berlin, illegally.

- We're forming a new group.
- What kind of group should that be?

- Probably all clowns.
- We're further than you think.

A lot has happened since you guys left.
We have good contacts.

Apartments, papers, money,
weapons, we can get it all.

Yes, and probably all
under your leadership.

Mr. Lawyer and the
illegal underground life.

I could shit myself.

Baby, at least let him finish.

Oh, he can't even steal
an old granny's dog.

That is relatively unobjective
now in the situation.

How is Dutschke actually doing?

He's living in London now,
is still disabled, can hardly speak.

Since the assassination attempt, no one
really knows how to continue the fight.

Bullshit! Rudi was already finished,
before somebody shot at him. APO wanker!

Let's see what you are made of.

Huh?

Empty the old one's bag
before she returns.

- Baby!
- Give it a rest!

I just want to see if
our lawyer has any guts.

It's all just talk after all.

Oh, man!

Holy shit, they're
stealing my car!

Hey, stop, you fucking wops!

Shit!

You stupid chick must have
left the car unlocked again!

Calm down,
we'll steal a new one.

You cunts! Cunts! Damn it!

What?

What are you doing here?

And you?

You can call the cops.

Where's Ulrike?

In bed.

Where is the bedroom?

Back there.

Hold on.

Be quiet, you'll
wake up the kids.

We're back.

But you're wanted.

So what?
Can we stay here for now?

Yeah, sure.

We're looking for people here
in Berlin and also in other cities.

We're forming a group.

We're going to change the
political conditions.

How is that going to be done?

What kind of fucking
bourgeois question is that?

We'll do it.

Or we'll die trying.

So, I've had enough for today,
where can I crash?

I'll join you later.

Hey.

What does he mean by that?

He means exactly what he said.

Andreas makes no compromises.

You have to understand,

Andreas has more revolutionary
drive than all of us together.

That sounds pretty stoned.

You look exhausted.

I shot a film in a girls' reformatory
where they are treated like dirt.

I thought I could change
the girls' situation with it,

but it all remained
the same old shit.

Except Peggy ran away.

What we need is a new morale.

You have to draw a clear line
between you and those you want to fight.

You have to get out of the system
and burn all the bridges behind you.

And your son?

I mean, you can't
see him anymore.

If you're serious, you have to be
able to make such sacrifices.

Andreas has a little
daughter as well.

I could never leave my children.

You're on fire, you're on fire!

Get out of here!
Get out of here!

Now that would be a
yellow press headline!

"Arsonist burns his balls off."

Go ahead, I'm going
to get a new car quickly.

- Don't race this time.
- Yeah, piss off already.

Shit.

Do you know how
fast you were going?

Nope, do you?

Show your papers, please.

Also the vehicle
documents, please.

This, eh...

I'm sorry about that, Officer, my
friend must have forgotten to put them in.

You live in Rome, Mr. Hoger?

Yeah.

When were you born?

June 14th 19...

39.

You do not seem to
be completely sure.

Well, that was a while ago.

- Hey.
- Hey, so?

They took him to Moabit prison.

We have to get him out of there.

Count me in.

Me too.

And how, with a bed sheet?

You can write about it afterwards, you
are not capable of anything else anyway.

Maybe Andreas should just do
his ten months remaining sentence.

Don't say that kind of bullshit.

The liberation of prisoners is currently
at the center of political discussion.

You have to teach the
pigs that we do something

when they jail one of us.

We'll get Andy out of there!

Now!

In any case,
we can't get into prison.

I know a publisher, I have
a book contract with him.

MOABIT PRISON

Good day.

This is Dr. Gretel Weitemeier,

the editor from the publishing
house that is putting out our book.

- Pleased to meet you.
- The pleasure's mine.

Bam!

Are you crazy?

Man, it's just tear gas.

Hm, looks real, doesn't it?

Where did you get it?

From Gudrun,
she got one for everybody.

And who is that, "everybody"?

That would be treason.

Then let me tell you:
Gudrun, Astrid and Ingrid...

- I need an aspirin.
- Ulrike.

She's just doing the decoy.

You told me you weren't
going along with this.

I want to know what's going on.

So?

Mahler arranged that
Andreas and I can do research

for a book in the
Institute for Social Issues.

What do you mean,
they're letting him out of jail?

Under police
surveillance, of course.

And that's where we come in.

In the institute,

we stick our gun under the noses of the
two cops, and Baader is out the door.

And you?

Why, what should be?
I just remain seated and act surprised.

You'll have her back for lunch.

You are all women.

What if the policemen don't
take you seriously at all?

Mahler knows another real pro.
And he's in it as well.

Mahler says he's already
done some hardcore shit.

I don't believe it.

The cops have real guns,
not that junk.

This is madness.

I have to do this now.

Mr. Baader,

I must expressly point out to you
that we must make use of the firearm

in the event of an
attempted escape.

You don't have to
worry about that.

I saw you on TV recently.

I hope it was interesting.

Yes, very.

Do you need anything else?

Thank you, I'm fine.

Hello.

Hello.

Sit down.

Can I have a cup of coffee?

Of course.

Are you married?

Do you have kids?

Yes, wife and kids.

Ah,

So, I would say
we'll start right away.

We now have...

I asked you yesterday
to come in the afternoon.

The reading room is
occupied at the moment.

Then we'll just wait here.

- Might take a while.
- We have time.

In a subsequent conversation...

Come on, quick!

Hey! What are you doing here?

Shit.

Hands up!

Against the wall there!

Come on, Kitty!

Gudrun! Help me!

Get down there!

Just stay there!

"KONKRET"
15TH ANNIVERSARY

...at the German Central Institute for
Social Issues at Miquelstrasse 83.

According to reports so far,

the kidnappers first shot tear gas
through the institute's open door,

then pushed the institute staff aside
and freed Baader at gunpoint.

According to latest reports, an
institute employee was critically injured

- by a gunshot to the abdomen.
- My god, the kids.

We say, the guy in the uniform is a
pig, not a human being.

And we have to deal
with him that way.

This means we don't talk to him.

And it's wrong to talk
to these people at all.

And of course it's O.K.
to shoot.

What we're doing,
and what we want to show,

is that armed
confrontations are feasible,

that it is possible to take
actions where we win.

And not where the
other side is winning.

And where, of course, the important
thing is that they don't catch us.

That's part of the success
of the story, so to speak.

What's the next step?

The group around
Andreas is getting bigger.

The Palestinians
want to help us.

You want to go to el-Fatah?

You should come.

The cops are looking for you.

They think you were shooting.

How do you want to know that?

I still have many friends.

Where are the children?

Klaus has now gotten custody
because I am wanted.

But he still won't
get the children.

But who?

They are on their way to Italy
to friends of Gudrun and Andy.

You once said that you
could never leave the children.

Yes, that's what I said.

So, think about coming with us.

JORDAN 1970

The lawyer looking
very Fidel Castro!

- Welcome, Andreas. Hi Gudrun!
- Where's the Havana cigar?

This is Ahmed, the commander.

The men sleep here in the
building, the women there.

What?

These are the rules
here in the camp.

You can stick your rules up your ass.
We sleep together, there!

What does that Ali say?

Forget it, come on.

So everybody in there,
take any bed!

Everybody into that house here.

Fucking hell!

This has nothing
to do with our job!

This has nothing
to do with our job!

We are urban guerrillas, got it?

We don't have any deserts!

Yes, tell the camel driver what
we're after is bank jobs! Bank jobs!

Bank boxes!

Tell him that!

What are you laughing at?

We were just
admiring your pants.

Got a bit dirty.

I'll finish you off,
you cocksucker!

Baby, leave it.

He's one of us.

Not him, he is not one of us.

He's only here because he's
scared of the cops in Germany.

Come on, Petra.

SICILY

You want to go back, right?

So this means you're giving up.

These people here are at war.

What's that got to do with
our situation in West Germany?

Do you seriously think

you can start a revolution in Germany
with a Kalashnikov in your hand?

West Germany is only one front.

We are fighting together with
comrades all over the world

against injustice and against oppression.
I thought you knew.

Then why not start
with your kids?

You've gone underground.
What's to become of them?

Sooner or later it will come out that I
was not present at the Baader liberation.

Then I can go back to legality.

I could take care of the kids.

That sounds an
awful lot like betrayal.

Betrayal?

Of whom?

Take care of yourself.

What? It's gotta be fun!

He doesn't want to give
us any more ammunition.

Then we'll go on strike.

What do they have to stare at?

Yeah, they've probably never
seen a naked woman before.

Hey, look who's coming.

What happens to traitors?

People's court.

What did he say?

He wants us to put
some clothes on.

Hey, what the fuck is this
repressive group here?

Sexual liberation and anti-imperialist
fight go together, you know?

He can't understand
that at all, baby.

Fucking and
shooting are the same.

Abu Hassan is the
commander of all camps.

He wants to give you the chance to
hear what your people are saying.

Also about you.

He wants to help us
get back to Germany.

And what about
weapons, logistics?

Translate what I said.

So, right now I don't think he'll help.
Maybe later.

Asswipe.

Don't worry,

we'll get you out of here.

WEST BERLIN

- Hands up!
- This is a robbery!

Hands up!

All down!

This is a robbery! Hands up!

Get away from the window!

Put all the bills in here!

Move over to the wall.

Robbery!

Robbery!

In West Berlin, three banks were
robbed within 10 minutes today.

The Sparkasse
on Breitenbachplatz

was invaded by three masked men and
a woman carrying a sawed-off shotgun.

At 08:10, four men entered,
they were dressed in parkas and...

The robbers looted
about 200,000 Marks.

There was already a
suspicion that the perpetrators

who carried out the
three bank robberies

were to be sought in left-wing
extremist militant circles.

Police later found a bag
of masks made from bobble hats.

They left a leaflet that said:
"Expropriate the enemies of the people.”

217,449 Marks 50.

Not bad for ten minutes.

Ulrike should write something.
A statement.

To make it clear that this
is the money of capitalists.

That the average Joe is
not affected by this.

Yes, okay,
write some shit like that.

The liberal jerk-offs
love that shit.

Hey, hey, the police
discovered another box

with 97,000 Marks in
the Altona Sparkasse.

You must have overlooked it, huh?

Typical cunt.

Fucking chick, you can
not pay attention or what?

- Did I miss anything?
- Shit-for-brains!

And you want to be
part of the revolution?

Your children are gone.

What?

I just called Sicily.

The guy who picked them
up even knew the code word.

- Hey sweethearts!
- That was Peter, the traitor pig.

- No, he didn't know anything.
- Who brought them down there?

You betrayed the children, huh?

Admit it!

I'm going to count to three,

then I'll know who took
the kids and where they are,

otherwise you can scratch
your birdbrain off the floor.

So.

- One. Two.
- I told Peter.

But he didn't take the children.
He's a wanted man, after all.

Who was it then?

Who was it then?

Some friend of him, former
"konkret" editor, I don't know him at all.

I don't know more
than that, really.

- Man, they are comrades.
- Shut up. They are rats.

We're going there now,
and you check if there's police.

Meinhof and Baader want to
kill you because of the children.

- What?
- They are waiting downstairs in the car.

Man, get him out of here.

Peter, wake up!
Wake up, Baader is coming!

- What?
- Come on, we have to get out of here.

Come on, let's get out of here.
You have to get up!

No one there.

Don't fuck with me.

Have a look yourself.

- Peter, take the back exit.
- Okay.

Go, go, go.

- All is well.
- We'll get that son of a bitch.

Evening!

I think tonight we need a hotel.

Some say robbing
banks is not political.

But since when is
question of financing

a political organization
not a political question?

The urban guerrillas in Latin America
call bank robberies expropriation actions.

In the robbery of the Bayerische Hypobank,
the perpetrators used extreme brutality.

When a security
guard got in their way...

It is politically correct
because it is eminent domain.

It is strategically correct because
it serves to finance the guerrillas.

In the process, passport
forms, ID cards,

official seals and
stationery were stolen.

I believe the Baader-Meinhof group pushes
the revolutionary ideas to some degree.

The other groups just
sit there and blather.

Hello, what are you doing there?

Hey, this is my car.

Hey, stop there.

There were five people
arrested yesterday.

Lawyer Horst Mahler, student
Peggy Schoenau, paralegal...

In the young woman's handbag,
police found a Belgian pistol.

...illegal possession of a weapon
and forgery of license plates and papers,

car jacking and aiding an escape,
burglary, theft, robbery,

and attempted murder
within a criminal organization.

Robberies in Mülheim,
Dortmund and Constance

are attributed to the same
group of perpetrators.

Show me your ID.

...found various calibers.
Nine millimeter, 7.65...

All are armed.

Wanted for attempted
murder of police officers,

for involvement in bank robberies,
and for forgery of passports.

...was hit in the process,
the second was uninjured,

but both were are arrested.

The fugitive couple, on whose arrest
a reward of 10,000 Marks is offered,

so far could not...

Would you hide a Baader
Meinhof member from the police?

- Tough. Tough question.
- Yes, I would do that,

It's too early to say how
often these guns were used...

...finally also won in a manhunt that has
gone through almost all the newspapers.

...yesterday the trial
of Astrid Berger began.

Many of the spectators expressed
their sympathies by chanting.

According to a poll
by the Allensbach Institute,

one in four Germans under 30
has some sympathy for the RAF.

That is about
seven million people.

That amounts to an enormous
pool of sympathizers,

which makes the search for
perpetrators tremendously difficult.

Lobster soup.

This is a proposal for
electronic data processing.

Let me give you an example
to explain what I mean.

Terrorists living in
illegality are, of course,

not registered with any authority,
such as registration offices.

Therefore, they cannot
set up a bank account.

So they pay their rents in cash.

Are you not hungry?

They pay everything in cash.

Gas, water, and
electricity bills.

In Frankfurt alone, 16,000 customers
pay their electricity bill in cash.

We can delete everyone from
the file who is registered with the

residents' registration office
or with a health insurance company.

And then?

Then further data matches
and deletions follow, for example,

to whom a vehicle is registered
or who receives child support.

The grid zooms in on people.

In the end, only two or three
suspects remain in the grid.

This is a
mathematical certainty.

This procedure put
into practice is of course

much more complicated than it
can be presented here in short.

Thank you very much,
also for the good soup.

You will hear from
us immediately.

- Please give my regards to the Minister.
- With pleasure.

In the long run, it does no good to
bash heads or, as some demand,

to chop off heads.

Terrorism is simply responding to
the problems that objectively exist.

Of course, with methods that
no human being can accept.

Not the police,

but the political powers
have to change the conditions

that lead to the
rise of terrorism.

At least that is my opinion.

Shit.

Step on it!

- Stop!
- Watch out, they're taking off!

Freeze!

Hands up!

You too. Man, get lost!

Petra, run!

Drop the gun!

Kiss my ass!

Stop, girl, stop!

Don't do anything stupid.
Hands up!

Switch. Switch to channel one.

Hello Werner,
you can't come in here now.

Excuse me, this is my apartment.

You said for one night.

Come on, now don't get so upset,
tomorrow we'll be gone.

All right. Tomorrow.

...two occupants, male and female,
the vehicle was hot-wired, by the way...

- What's going on?
- ... SO a stolen vehicle.

The two of them immediately...

This is Petra's car.

...the police officers
opened fire.

The woman,
after a shoot-out with the police,

which she initiated,
and after ignoring calls by police

to lay down her weapon and cease
fire, was fatally wounded.

Shit.

This means war.

Those pigs.
They'll pay for this!

Shot in cold blood.

Clearly, there's a
shoot-to-kill order.

They're hunting us down.

We have to attack
the cops head-on.

Blow up police helicopters,
fire on departments.

Something!

That contradicts
our main policy.

I don't give a damn
about the main policy.

Namely, the armed combat against
imperialism, and that means concretely

against the U.S. military presence in
the Federal Republic and in West Berlin.

Soon there will be more
of us in jail than free.

We need to be more
planned and prudent.

What do you want
this to look like, please?

We need more precautions.

We can't just go
into a different city

and start an action without
being familiar with the locality.

Otherwise, it wouldn't
have happened with Petra.

The setbacks were down to individuals.
It's not the overall planning.

If there is no result,
mistakes must have been made.

Well, of course mistakes have been made,
but by individuals, not the group!

So individuals have to change,
not the group!

All this mindless
scrambling, this rush.

If it doesn't work here,
let's quickly try the next city.

It has never been considered
why something doesn't work out.

You cunts! Your emancipation!

It's only about
screaming at your men!

Baby,

you can't know that at all.

General Daniel Chase,
division leader at the Pentagon,

declared yesterday in Washington that U.S.
Air Force bombing raids will from now on

spare no target north or
south of the 17th parallel.

The deployment of
chemicals for deforestation...

For the extermination
strategists of Vietnam,

West Germany and West Berlin
shall no longer be safe havens.

They must know that their crimes
against the Vietnamese people

have created new bitter enemies.

That for them there will no longer
be a place in the world

where they can be safe from the
attacks of revolutionary guerrilla units.

At 610 p.m. sharp,
at intervals of about...

We demand a stop of
the bombings in Vietnam.

We demand the withdrawal of
American troops from Indochina.

We demand the lifting of the
mine blockade against North Vietnam.

AUGSBURG
POLICE HEADQUARTER

...sentenced to life
imprisonment for allegedly

shooting police officer
Herbert Schoner.

...been hit by at
least three bullets,

one of which entered his chest and the
other hit a major artery in the thigh...

...we know that the other one, the injured
man who also shot, is the 25-year-old...

...is guilty, stated the court.

He shot police
officer Heinz Eckhardt

as he was arrested on
March 3, 1972 in Hamburg...

We will continue to carry out bombings
against judges and prosecutors

until they have ceased violating
the rights of political prisoners.

Our demands on the justice
system are not unreasonable.

We have no other means
to force them to do that.

Commando Petra Schelm.

Today, May 12, there was an attack
on the police headquarters in Augsburg.

Five police officers were injured,
some critically.

Just a few hours later, there
was a further attack in Munich.

We have called in experts
who will now investigate,

which materials were used
for the explosive device...

The chief prosecutor's office in
Karlsruhe offered a reward of 10,000 Marks.

The car is currently being
examined by experts from

the Federal Criminal
Police Office in Wiesbaden.

Explosives experts,
chemists and criminal forensics experts...

At 12:29 a.m. in KlosestralBe, a bomb
tore up the car of federal judge

Wolfgang Buddenberg when
his wife tried to start the engine.

Buddenberg was involved in
investigating the Baader-Meinhof Group.

His wife regularly
drove him to work.

With splinter injuries
she was hospitalized,

She is still in shock,
but her life is not in danger.

Shit. I need more grinders.

What is the
situation at this hour,

just before the threatened time
of the crime at 2:00 p.m. in Stuttgart?

Checkpoints on all exit roads,
at all entry points to the city center,

machine guns, armed law
enforcement officers dominate the scene.

Until yesterday morning alone,
the police had...

Axel Springer Publishing House?

A bomb will go off in five minutes.
Evacuate the building immediately!

Who are you anyway?

Is this the crazy guy again?

Please stop these calls.

You fucking pigs!

We demand from Springer
that his newspapers

stop the smear campaign against the
liberation movement in the Third World.

Especially against the Arab peoples
fighting for the liberation of Palestine.

We will not cease our operations
against the enemies of the people

until our demands are met.

Chancellor Brandt declared
that the German government condemns

the attacks with
indignation and disgust.

Killing people by explosives "cowardly
and devious, " the chancellor said...

Springer preferred
to take the risk

that his workers and employees would
be injured by bombs, rather than the risk

of losing a few hours of working time, i.e.
profit, due to false alarms.

For capitalism, profit is everything,
the people who generate it are scum.

We are deeply saddened that
workers and employees have been hurt.

...five bombs were planted,
of which two exploded.

What do you suggest?

You can imagine how much
pressure the government is under?

We'll slap the water.

Pardon me?

When you slap the water,
the fish start to move.

I need the entire police force,
criminal police, railroad police,

coast guard from
across the country

for one day under the
command of the Federal Police.

That would be...

That would be at
least 130,000 men.

That's about right.

In addition,
we bring all helicopters

that are available from the public sector
of the Federal Republic into the air.

And we'll close the borders.

On one single day,
we'll shake down all of West Germany.

That will disturb our fishes
and drive them into our nets.

Across the country, police are checking
car traffic on highways and major roads.

The same scene at the borders.

Due to tighter controls,
there were heavy traffic jams.

All available officers of the
Federal Republic are on duty.

By noon today alone,
police in the Hamburg area

had inspected 15,000 vehicles and
checked the papers of their occupants.

This is the police state
you always talked about.

Most of the citizens accepted the
measures of the police calmly.

On the contrary,
the population supports the...

Doesn't look like the
revolution is imminent, though.

Shut the fuck up!

Urban guerrillas operate in the rift
between the state and the masses.

Identity checks were also conducted
and vehicles were inspected

outside public buildings, stadiums,
and airports in urban areas.

Mug shots of suspected
RAF members were...

Mao Zedong said
something a long time ago.

You all know the text.

But I'll remind you of it today.

He said:

"If the enemy fights you,
that is good.

For it is proof that
between us and the enemy

a clear dividing line exists.

If the enemy confronts
us forcefully

and paints us in the
blackest of colors,

then even better.

It shows that we have
not only drawn a line

between us and the enemy,

but also that our work has
led to magnificent success."

- The canister.
- What's wrong with it?

Somebody moved it.

This is not my material.

Stop right there, police.

Hold it right there!
Drop your weapon!

Stop, police!

Drop your weapon!

Drop your weapon!

Shit.

Throw the guns into
the yard and come out.

The longer you wait,
the stronger our forces will become.

We are already too
strong for you anyway.

Come out before it's too late.

Bullshit.

You don't stand a chance anymore.

You've played your last card.

What do you want now? I'm sure
you want to get out of this situation.

You don't stand a chance.

The only chance you
have is to stay alive.

And you have...

Put your hands up and come out one at
a time and nothing will happen to you.

We have more patience
than you, much more.

And we are in the
better situation.

Our tactical
starting position...

...after perpetrators, especially after
members of the Baader-Meinhof group,

police units have achieved
the greatest success to date

in Frankfurt early this morning.

Among those arrested:
Andreas Baader and Holger Meins,

who is also considered part
of the group's inner circle.

Shit.

Okay, you big
terrorist, fire away!

This is for Norbert.

And Heinz.

- Can I try that on?
- Sure, there are the changing rooms.

Come on. There's the jacket.

You are under arrest.

No!

Let go!

No.

You fucking cops!

Oh, no!

Let go!

No!

No!

Oh, no!

Is that you?

Are you Ulrike Meinhof?

WITTLICH PRISON

COLOGNE PRISON

ESSEN PRISON

SCHWALMSTADT PRISON

BUHL PRISON

COLOGNE PRISON

Ulrike!

Ulrike!

Quiet.

Ulrike.

Ulrike!

Ulrike!

Astrid!

Ulrike!

Ulrike!

Here I am!

Here I am!

Astrid!

Ulrike!

Astrid!

Astrid!

Here!

Ulrike!

Ulrike!

Ulrike!

A telegram from the
Minister of the Interior.

He congratulates you on your
spectacular successes.

The Minister of the Interior
considers the RAF chapter now closed.

I declare

MUNICH
AUGUST 1972

the 1972 Olympic Games

to be open!

The sparrow from Minsk,
pursued by misfortune and luck.

...Of them, disguised as
guards or garbage men,

climbed the fence and entered the
dormitory of the Israeli team.

There they killed Israeli coach Moshe
Weinberg with two shots to the head.

The commando,
calling itself "Black September”,

gave the Interior Minister a
list with the names of more than

230 prisoners whose
release they demand,

...had said the
hostages were safe.

This has now been revoked.

...at the moment no release
of prisoners has been made, already...

FORSTENFELDENBRUCK
MILITARY AIRBASE

Our worst fears have
now become bitter reality.

They're all dead.

Without the horrific
events of the past week,

the Munich Olympics would
have gone down in history,

as we all hoped, as
the joyful games.

We cannot drop
out of this world,

in which there is still much
hatred and violence,

but we must confront
these dangers, and not give...

Gentlemen,

we are mandated by the state
to fight terrorism in this country

and, if possible,
to put an end to it.

Who would like to say something?

We need a special unit trained to
take out such lunatics in the future.

Your words are no less brutal
than the terrorists' acts.

I think the formation of a
special unit is necessary,

but with such measures alone
we will not solve the problem.

The roots go deeper.

Namely?

Palestinians want
land back from Israel.

No one in the world
listens to them.

So they try to attract attention
through terrorist activities.

Are you saying that you approve
of of the terrorists' acts?

Nadler, don't give
me that nonsense.

I have never advocated
condoning the acts of terrorists.

But certainly to learn and understand
their motives, as best one can.

But that's a purely
theoretical approach.

People have been
killed and injured.

This is not a theory.

Neither is the fact

that the revolutionary movements and
forces in Palestine were not considered.

So you want to grant these
murderers special status?

No!

But our response
cannot be so rigid.

It's in part our ignorance
which promotes terrorism.

In other words, the question is

whether terrorism represents
a new form of warfare.

Whether it replaces the great war,
which is currently not taking place.

I'm sorry, I don't
follow you there.

And I doubt very much that
the victims or their relatives can.

I understand your
bitterness very well.

But we, whose job it
is to fight terrorism,

have to acknowledge

that the social problems of the Third
World, that the Middle East conflict,

that Americans' war in Vietnam,
that these problems exist objectively.

I have to fight a war here

that is more psychologically demanding
for me than anything I experienced

as a soldier on the
Russian front in World War 11,.

7 MONTHS LATER

The feeling that your
head is exploding.

The feeling that
the cell is moving.

You can't get it to stop moving.

Raging aggression,
for which there is no outlet.

That's the worst thing
about solitary confinement.

Clear awareness that you
have no chance of survival.

Starting today,
we are on hunger strike.

We demand improved
prison conditions.

That means political prisoners must
be treated like all other prisoners.

Our hunger strike

is our only way of solidarity
resistance in solitary confinement.

Our hunger strike
must be carried out

so that the prisoners become
incapable of standing trial.

The perspective is
explosions in the prison system.

- See you tomorrow.
- See you tomorrow.

The goals must be formulated
in such a way that every rocker,

including those who have shot
their girlfriend, can relate to them.

This means that guys will
break in the process.

We can say that every
three weeks or whatever...

every second or fourth,
one of us will kill himself.

Until solitary confinement,

exterminatory imprisonment,
is lifted for all.

But the hunger strike only
becomes a weapon when it's clear

that it will be continued until
the collective demand is met.

Even if there are
sick and dead people.

BAN EXTERMINATORY IMPRISONMENT

Counsel, just a few minutes, please.
Prisoner Meins is very weak.

Gudrun wrote this to me.

That is the goal.

You decide when you die.

Freedom or death.

In case I pass from life
to death, it was murder.

No matter what
the pigs will claim.

Do not believe the
lying murderers.

Give me a fag.

Of course I don't know what it's
like to die. Or to be killed.

How could I?

That's it.

On the right side, anyway.

The situation is quite clear.

Fighting against the pigs, as
human, for the liberation of humans.

A revolutionary at war.

Despite all love of life,

defying death.

That's my way of
serving the people.

You must get the prison
doctor immediately.

I'm sorry, counselor,
he's already off for the weekend.

Yes, well, get his deputy.

We don't have a deputy here.

Then just get some
doctor from the outside.

- We are not authorized to do that.
- The man is dying, you can see that.

You have to do something, now!

I'm sorry, there's
nothing we can do.

November 10, 1974, Berlin.

One day after the death of
Baader-Meinhof member Holger Meins

as a result of a hunger
strike lasting several weeks,

the president of Berlin's High
Court, von Drenkmann

was shot at his apartment door.

Since the murder
of Drenkmann's...

We won't shed a tear
for the dead Drenkmann.

We celebrate such an execution.

...attacks have been
made on judges and lawyers

involved in cases against
members of the anarchist scene.

The lawyers of Holger Meins

have filed charges of murder
against the judiciary today...

The operation was necessary because it
has made clear to every lawyer and cop pig

that he too, even today,
can be held accountable.

It's Dutschke.

It's him.

Holger, the fight goes on!

Here the so-called multi-purpose hall is
being built, close to the Stammheim prison.

This is where the
trial of the inner circle

of the Baader-Meinhof
group will take place.

These are pictures of
the high security wing.

It is currently being considered
to bring the prisoners,

who are currently serving time in different
prisons, together here in a larger group.

But if everyone is
transferred to Stammheim,

aren't we quite setting
up a terrorist HQ?

The consolidation is a decision
of the Federal Prosecutor's Office.

After all, we at the
Federal Police Office

can only monitor the internal
communication of the group.

But maybe it will be easier if the
inner circle is gathered in one place.

If the conditions of imprisonment
are facilitated by this,

i.e. group imprisonment, then there is no
reason for the hunger strike anymore.

STOCKHOLM
GERMAN EMBASSY 1975

Go, go, go!

- Out!
- Everybody out!

Out!

Get out!

- Come on now!
- Move!

Open up! Come on, open up!

Give it to me.

Go!

Go, get out!

Come on!

Come on, get out! Faster!

Out!

Out!

Get on the ground!

STUTTGART-STAMMHEIM
PRISON

We just got breaking
news on the desk

MAXIMUM SECURITY WING
7TH FLOOR

that there was a shooting at the
German Embassy in Stockholm

at noon today, with
one fatality reported.

Eye-witnesses report shots
fired inside the building.

The police cordoned
off the area.

There is no information
about deaths and injuries.

Some 100 people
are in the embassy building.

Police have meanwhile
arrived in great numbers.

Yesterday, the German Press
Agency in Stockholm received a call.

A male person claimed to be a member
of the RAF and demanded the release...

...Members of the
Baader-Meinhof group...

Authorities believe the
attack is a last-ditch attempt

to free the RAF prisoners in
Stammheim before the trial.

- No fire in the cell!
- Kiss my ass!

- We'll be gone tomorrow anyway.
- Tell me your decision.

We will now shoot one
embassy staff member every hour.

And if the building is stormed,
we will blow up the building.

We will not walk out of here
until our demands are met.

Tell them to get their
people out of here.

Translate that.

He's not allowed to
pull back his people.

Then we will get serious.

Translate.

Translate!

Get the hell out of here!

Get lost!

Stop it!

Just before midnight, the first
explosion occurred in the embassy.

The wing of the building

where the terrorists fortified with
the hostages went up in flames.

More explosions
rapidly followed.

When the police stormed the
building, shots were fired.

The hostage drama that ended
in a chaos of explosives blasts

and gunfire last night has
claimed a total of three lives.

Two of the dead
are embassy staff.

One of them is in all
likelihood Heinz Hillegaart,

the head of the
economic department.

It ls not yet clear
whether he was shot,

like military attaché
von Mirbach yesterday,

or whether he died
in the explosions.

The third fatality is a terrorist.

Five terrorists
have been arrested.

Their names are
Siegfried Hausner,

Bernhard Rössner, Karl-Heinz Dellwo,
Lutz Taufer and Hanna Krabbe.

What a fucked-up operation.

What a fucked-up operation.

This morning, Foreign Minister
Hans-Dietrich Genscher

- arrived here in Stockholm.
- What a fucked-up operation.

After two hours of negotiations,
the Swedish government agreed

to extradite the captured terrorists
to the German government.

The first to be flown
out to Stammheim

this afternoon is the critically
injured Siegfried Hausner.

I think this is irresponsible.

If the man dies,

he'll be the second man,
after Meins, to die in custody.

With blunders like that we're helping
the RAF terrorits gain immortality.

This is a prison here.

We are not equipped at all
for seriously injured people.

We have to keep him
here for now. Orders!

That's completely crazy!

FIRST DAY OF TRIAL

Mr. Baader is sufficiently defended
with the two public defenders

who were assigned to
him for his own good.

If he does not want to make
use of them, that's his choice.

Those attorneys are
not defending me.

They have never talked
to me and never will.

By the way, someone wrote
"head off" next to my microphone.

What about a head?

I just noticed that someone wrote
"head off" next to my microphone.

What comes to your mind?

That's too obscure for me.

I declare myself incapable
of standing trial.

That I am basically not at
all able to speak at the place,

at the moment when absolutely
something would have to be said or

I would want to say something.

I therefore request medical
examinations for all of us,

by an independent
doctor from outside.

Request denied.

The argument keeps being made

that we're not in solitary confinement
because we inhabit slightly larger cells.

I therefore state again,

we have been, for most of the past
three years, in complete isolation.

- Complete isolatation.
- Mr. Baader.

Whenever we talked through the tiny slot
in the door, which was about 1cm wide...

- Mr. Baader!
- If only one or two sentences were spoken,

someone stood in front
of the door taking notes.

You no longer have the floor.

Yes, thank you.

Why do you suddenly change my
texts without telling me anything?

Because the stuff you write makes
a ragged and broken impression.

I don't understand
why you're doing this.

You pounce on mistakes of mine and
reproach me with them again and again.

I can't stand it.

Your meanness and sneakiness
drives me up the wall.

- Guard!
- Wait.

I'm so sick of your
bouts of exhaustion!

I'm so fed up with them!

Guard.

You want me to snap!

This is just not true.

You can discuss
it with Andy later.

- Yes, I will.
- Then go ahead and do that!

Honestly, I don't get it.

...something to the end...

I don't see what those cunts
are so caught up with.

It fucks them up, that they
just let Hausner croak like that.

I mean,
that was totally screwed.

You're starting a fag revolution.
You know that?

We have to get out of here.

It will not be easy to find a
new troop after Stockholm.

You are so selfish!

Get your fucking
emotions sorted for once!

Oh, you have no clue!
You have no clue!

Get lost, you pig, you!

Fuck off!

What do you want
from us, asshole?

Get lost or get us out of here!

Get us out!

39TH DAY OF TRIAL

Mrs. Meinhof!

Mrs. Meinhof, as defendant
you're required to stay here.

I won't let you force
me, you asshole!

Mrs. Meinhof, for the record, you have
just addressed me as "you asshole".

Yeah, why don't you
acknowledge that?

The defendant is barred
from today's proceedings

for calling the presiding
judge "you asshole".

Then kindly bar me as well.

Mr Baader, this is not a
question of what you wish!

Yes, what do you want? Do you want
there to be physical violence here?

No, you are to sit down and
participate in an orderly manner!

All right, then go on with
your ridiculous circus.

I'll keep disrupting
as long as I'm in here.

- Mr. Baader.
- Yes, do you really want to hear it?

- No.
- You can hear it!

No, I don't want to hear it.

Yes, you can also hear from
me that you are a fascist asshole.

We're not able to
defend ourselves.

As a result, we will not
participate, old sow.

You disturbed!

You disturbed!

So, for the record you
called me an "old sow".

Did I hear that correctly?
Or am I mistaken?

No, I want this on record!

And you, Mr. Baader,
you called me a "fascist asshole"?

Lousy rat.

The defendants are barred
from the proceedings.

The bench will retire
for consultation.

Terms such as "isolation torture"
and "torture imprisonment" lend the

so-called inner circle of the RAF
sympathies of almost mythical dimensions.

Tell me, Siegfried,
would you like a schnitzel?

Why not?

You too?

Certain organs of the foreign press are
conjuring up a newly emerging Nazi justice.

In its most active times,
I'm talking about 1972 here,

there were searches for about 30 highly
dangerous perpetrators within the RAF.

Almost all could be caught.

Nevertheless, now in 1975,
just three years later,

more than 10,000 people are to be
classified as potentially dangerous.

As it seems, the RAF develops
a growing fascination from prison.

And with it an increasingly
criminal energy.

FEBRUARY 1976

You want to know about Ulrike?

It's sinister.

A vampire, trembling
with bloodlust.

Ulrike's two laughs during work.

Necrophilic, hysterical, absolutely
ugly and clearly directed against me.

Although I still say basically it's
directed less against me than against you.

This is shit.

You give me false information or
Gudrun completely rewrites my stuff.

Why do you do that?

- Is it because you want to torment me?
- To pay back your tormenting.

An eye for an eye.

I don't get this anymore, or I
don't want to, but I can't stand it.

I'm no witch,
but I've become brutal sometimes.

Now don't kid yourself.

You hate us, there's a bag
full of signals for that.

So just shut your mouth until
you've changed, or go to hell.

Man, Andreas, please.

How are we supposed to
communicate our goals outside

if you bomb workers?

Why don't you look
at the coverage of us?

I know the Springer
bombing was a mistake.

It was not a mistake.
It contradicted the main policy!

I have discussed
this a thousand times.

- We called there, several times.
- The operation was counter-revolutionary.

Now, stop it already.

The Tupamaros would have
shot you for something like that.

The question is,
how can a prisoner in solitary confinement

show the judicial authorities
that his behavior has changed?

How?

In solitary confinement, if a
prisoner wants to signal he's changed,

he has only one possibility:
and that is betrayal.

There is no other possibility for
a prisoner in solitary confinement.

So that means there are
exactly two possibilities.

- Either...
- Mrs. Meinhof.

- I want to elaborate on this.
- Quiet.

Either they silence a
prisoner, meaning death,

or you get him to talk,
meaning a confession, and betrayal.

And so,

based on the reality of this situation,
the supreme court's order

has a clear and defined statement
that there is torture. Exactly, torture.

Defined by the goal
of extorting confessions,

creating insecurity or confusion
among prisoners, and punishing them.

The knife in the back
of the RAF is you.

Because you learn nothing.

It's not mystical when I
say I can't take it anymore.

What I can't take anymore is
not being able to defend myself.

We are responsible for the attacks on
the CIA headquarters of the 5th US Corps

in Frankfurt/Main and on the
US headquarters in Heidelberg.

We are certainly also responsible
for operations of commandos,

for example,

the attack on the
Springer building,

of which we knew nothing
which conception we did not approve,

and which we had
rejected in that form.

The anarchist Ulrike Meinhof,

one of the defendants in the Baader
Meinhof trial, has taken her own life.

She was found dead early this morning
in her cell in Stuttgart-Stammheim.

Ulrike Meinhof, it was murder!

Authorities report that the
41-year old hanged herself

from her window bars
using a strip of her towel.

Later in the day, the body
was taken for an autopsy.

Day 109 of the trial in
Stuttgart-Stammheim

commenced with unusually
high public interest.

Since a long time there were
more visitors than chairs.

To start off,
the attorneys filed a request

to suspend the
trial for 10 days.

And it has yet to be determined

whether Meinhof really committed
suicide, as authorities claim.

We believe that
Ulrike was executed.

We don't know how,
but we know by whom.

I recall the words of the
Attorney General Buback:

"State security thrives on the
commitment of people like me.

Herold and I will
always find a way."

I will not tolerate such defamatory
remarks under any circumstances.

It was a cold-blooded execution,

like Holger was executed,

like Siegfried Hausner
was executed,

and Ulrike's execution now!

Fascists! Murderers!

Silence!

You are a judge under whose leadership
two out of five prisoners were killed!

But why have Schubert, Möller

and now Mohnhaupt been
moved to Stammheim?

The Public Prosecutor's Office
caved in to public pressure.

They've commissioned a study
to prevent further suicides.

Thus Baader and
Ensslin were allowed

to have RAF prisoners transferred
from other prisons to Stammbheim.

Time is up,
please return to your cells.

Shut the fuck up.

Mohnhaupt will be
released in seven months.

She's sure to go underground.

That's probably why Baader and
Ensslin insisted on her coming.

SPRING 1977

Good to see you.

You're Charlie?

I want to talk to him alone.

Andreas and Gudrun have
great confidence in you.

How are they doing?

They are doing like shit.

We have to get them
out of there, soon.

Or they'll end up like
Ulrike and Holger.

A few in our group think
we can hijack a 747SP.

We then let it circle over Bonn,
along with the ultimatum

to exchange our people
within the next six to eight hours.

Then it'll run out
of gas and crash.

In the middle of Bonn.

We heard about the plan. No operations
against the people. Absolutely not.

We'll focus on the
two kidnappings.

Where are you guys at with that?

All checked out.

It's a go.

Here, before I forget...

I brought you something.

Almost five years in jail...

It's a long time.

That's how long I
haven't fucked a man.

The Stammheimers need weapons.

If another liberation
attempt fails, then...

At least they want to be able
to decide for themselves.

You can't talk about it with
the others, no matter what.

Now let's see it, the Beccaria Medal!

Very nice, the medal.

Very.

Congratulations.

You are working on
your day of honor?

Gottfried Hagemann,
you remember, the lawyer.

Upon his arrest,

we found encoded strategic papers
on planned operations at his place.

"Big Money"

"Big Get-Them-Out."

"Check out HM "

"Margarine."

What does that tell you?

Siegfried, we have been expecting
an act of revenge for some time.

On April 7, 1977, the
Commando Ulrike Meinhof

executed Attorney
General Siegfried Buback.

Buback was directly responsible
for the murder of Holger Meins,

Siegfried Hausner
and Ulrike Meinhof.

He orchestrated and directed their
murder in his capacity as Attorney General.

Under Buback's direction,

Holger was murdered thorugh systematic
malnutrition on November 9, 1974.

Under Buback's direction,

Ulrike, on May 9th, 1976, was executed
by the state security apparatus.

Her death was
staged as a suicide

in order to portray her
political cause as pointless.

We will prevent our fighters in West
German prisons from being murdered

because the Attorney
General can't stop...

"... the prisoners from fighting,

other than by liquidating them.

Commando Ulrike Meinhof."

We could not protect him.

I ask myself why new terrorist
units keep emerging out there.

What motivates them?

A myth.

This is Susanne.

I called yesterday to
say I was coming over.

Is uncle Jürgen at home?

Just a moment, please.

There is a young girl outside.

She says she called yesterday.

My godchild.

She came with two
more young people.

What do they look like?

Quite mannerly.

Let them in.

Come in, Mr. Ponto is expecting you.
Good day.

This way.

That's quite a committee.

I wanted to show up again.

Friends of mine.

Kiara.

- Good day.
- Gerd.

- Hello.
- Mr. Ponto, is there anything else?

No, you can leave.

Come outside.

Just a second.

What a nice surprise.

I just need to finish
the call quickly.

Let's find a vase for those.

Have a seat.

Of course...

Move! Go to the exit.

- Come with me.
- You must be insane.

You are a prisoner of the RAF.

You must be insane.

Come on! Out!

That's not what I wanted!
How do I explain this to my parents?

We said no guns!
Only knock him out if he fights back!

That's what it was all about.

We only wanted to kidnap
him, and now he's dead!

Why are you even here, huh?

To play female Robin Hood without
getting your hands dirty, or what?

Oh, God!

Stop bawling!
You sign the confession letter.

No, I won't do that.

No!

As for Ponto and the shots
that hit him today in Oberursel, we say:

that it was not clear enough to us that
these guys, who start wars around the world

and exterminate people,

are dumbfounded by the violence
when they face it in their own home.

Susanne Albrecht from
a commando of the RAF.

Is it true that Susanne Albrecht

was reported as gone underground
by the state security authorities?

Were the responsible authorities
actually aware of Miss Albrecht's

connection to the Ponto family?

It's not as if Susanne Albrecht
belonged to the few suspicious persons

in the Federal Republic, but we
are dealing with a mass problem.

The number of highly
dangerous people

who are constantly subject to
our computer search is at 1,200.

Susanne Albrecht
was one of them.

However, no one can
observe 1,200 people.

20 officers are needed
per observed person.

1,200 times 20.

The entire German criminal police
does not have that much personnel.

- Hey!
- Hey, open up!

- The door stays open!
- Open up!

We will not accept closed doors.

Hey, no closed doors!

Now you have the war you wanted.

You pigs!

You dirty pigs!

Let go of me!

You fucking cops.

You motherfuckers.

Go to hell!

How much longer?

I'm almost done.
I almost have it.

229, twelfth line, fourth word.
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, three, four.

Finished.

We will get ahead of
the plan to liquidate us.

We want to, and we will,
preserve our identity.

"We know that there is
a concrete plan to kill us.

Capitulation is unacceptable.

You will have to hurry.

That's all we have
to say to you."

The message is clear.

If we do nothing,
they will create a fait accompli.

What do you mean by that?

"Fait accompli”.

That's pretty obvious, isn't it?

If we don't get them
out now, they're dead.

So?

Schleyer's going on vacation
the day after tomorrow.

Do you know for how long?

For several weeks.

Well, then we'll have
to do it tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

Why not?

Then it's time to play hard-ball.

What does that mean, "hard-ball"?

It means that we have to shoot Schleyer's
entourage in order to get to him.

The Special Unit escorts
are trained and armed.

They are combatants.

But this does not apply
to Schleyer's driver.

He's not even armed.

You prick, don't you even get that they're
supposed to be killed in Stammheim?

Stop it now!

Let's put it to a vote.

I can't go along
with it like that.

There has to be another way.

Okay.

Then you leave now

and we'll discuss it further,
it's no longer your business then.

Brigitte, you stay
out of this operation.

If something goes wrong
again, we need a leader left.

We'll discuss that later.

Now let's vote on whether
we should play hardball.

What about you?

It is safe to assume that the
kidnappers are hiding Schleyer

within a maximum perimeter of 20
kilometers around the crime scene.

It took place just
under an hour and a half ago.

Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.

Five weeks after the
assassination of banker Ponto,

an attack was carried out on

Hanns Martin Schleyer
in Cologne this evening.

Four police officers belonging
to his escort unit were killed.

A search is on for the
still unidentified culprits.

He's not among
those killed, so...

Schleyer was obviously, at least according
to the statement of the officer-in-charge

at the site, not killed,
but kidnapped by the terrorists.

...Is not known at the moment.
The search is ongoing.

There are several manhunts.

Speakers of all parties
in the Bundestag

have condemned the Schleyer attack
and the murders of his four...

Now you have a problem.

Now you have a problem.

Now you have a fucking problem.

...Officers and men
who lost their lives

in the defense of our
constitutional rights.

I hope that the general
public can acknowledge

that there can be
no sympathy at all,

not even latent sympathy,
for brutal murderers of this kind.

That we have everything to do...

Chancellor Schmidt addressed
the public just under an hour ago.

Tonight,
four deaths extend the list

of victims of frenzied
terrorists who,

we have always
been aware of that,

are not yet expended all
of their criminal energy.

At this moment, they might feel
a triumphant sense of power.

But they should
not be mistaken...

Terrorism doesn't stand
a chance in the long run.

Not only the will of the state
organs stands against terrorism.

Against terrorism stands
the will of all people.

The kidnappers demand the
release of 10 prisoners.

All members of the RAF.

Hey.

Andy, what's going on out there?

Andreas.

Baby! Baby!

What are you doing?

Andy.

What are you doing?

IRAQ, BAGHDAD
OCTOBER 1977

BRUSSELS

Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.

A German Lufthansa passenger jet

has been in the hands of
hijackers since this afternoon.

The plane was on a flight from
Palma de Mallorca to Frankfurt.

There are 86 passengers
on board, mostly vacationers...

...the air pirate gave his
name as Walter Mohammed.

Literally, he says,
"The group I represent..."”

This act is meant to drive home the
demands of Schleyer's kidnappers.

Two hours after landing,
the hijacked Lufthansa plane

takes off again for Cyprus.

In my current situation,
I really have to ask myself:

Does anything else have to happen
before Bonn finally makes a decision?

After all, by now

I've been in the custody of the
terrorists for five and a half weeks.

And all this only
because I have stood up

and exposed
myself for this state

and its liberal
democratic order for years.

Sometimes the remarks I hear,

including those from
political institutions,

seem to me like a
mockery of my work.

We realize that we're under the
pressure of a very serious ultimatum.

...demand the release
of the political prisoners,

in particular the RAF
members in Stammheim.

...the terrorists on board
the Lufthansa plane

surprisingly set an
ultimatum for 9 o'clock.

They threatened that
upon expiration of the ultimatum,

they would first kill three passengers
and crew members

and then every five
minutes another...

In a telegram,
Pope Paul VI offers himself

in exchange for the
remaining 86 hostages.

An exchange of the prisoners
for Lufthansa passengers and crew

is to take place
at Aden airport.

The ambassador of South Yemen
in Cairo said here at noon today

that his country is not willing
to allow terrorists to land.

Lufthansa is making
an emergency landing.

ADEN AIRPORT
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF YEMEN.

It is still not clear whether
there is even one Arab country

to accept the terrorists of the
Baader-Meinhof group in exchange

for the lives of
Hanns Martin Schleyer

and the passengers and crew
of the Lufthansa plane in Dubai.

There are hardly any Arab states left

that let themselves identify with the
operations of political gangsters today.

Why does South Yemen strictly
refuse to accept our comrades?

The ultimatum which
expires tomorrow at noon...

What's going on?

It's all going wrong!
Everything!

...the captain of the hijacked Lufthansa
plane had been shot by the terrorists.

The airplane has left Aden.

The commando shot the pilot.

The exchange was supposed to have taken
place in Aden according to the plan.

What do we do then?

Baby?

This is getting
totally out of hand.

The airport of the Somali
capital yesterday morning.

The Boeing is parked
on the tarmac.

The body of Captain Schumann was
sent down a slide at the tail.

The Somali government is interested in
the plane taking off as soon as possible.

It has not been confirmed in your
conversation with the chargé d'affaires

that if this does not happen,
the plane will be blown up.

It's actually too
late for this talk.

The chance to influence
events has passed.

We, the prisoners here,

we would never have approved of
acts against innocent civilians.

The Federal Government...

The Federal Government has to realize
that the second and the third generations

of the RAF will
increase the brutality.

I want to speak to the
two prison chaplains.

Compared to what's
happening now,

we have had a rather
moderate policy.

Are you serious about that?

After eight deaths in
the last few months.

The operations that have been
taking place out there for years...

Greetings.

...have been undertaken by the
second and third generations.

Also, the Schleyer kidnappers
are not known to us personally at all.

I have a request.

In my cell, in a
folder labeled "lawyer"

there are three loose,
hand-written pages.

They're meant for the head
of the Federal Chancellery,

once I'm liquidated or executed.

But Miss Ensslin...

I am afraid that otherwise these documents
will be misappropriated or even destroyed.

But do you really believe that someone
wants to liquidate or execute you?

Not just someone

from this place.

It will come from the outside.

If we don't get out of here,
terrible things will happen.

The armed struggle has
become international.

What do you mean by that?

The question is:

Which states benefit from the
escalation of brutality and violence.

It may even be desired by some.

The power relations between the US
and the western industrial states

cause a strong dependence
and oppression of the masses.

They will inevitably lead to a
new, terrible, violent escalation.

What other influence do you
still have on the current situation?

Released prisoners are better than dead
prisoners, even for the federal government.

Tell the state secretary,

if he still wants to talk to me,
he might have to travel very far.

Mrs. Ensslin, I hope we'll be
able to continue this talk.

Theologians hope.

12:38 a.m., this is Deutschlandfunk
with an important message.

The 86 hostages kidnapped
by terrorists in a Lufthansa Boeing

have all been happily freed,

This was confirmed by a spokesman
for the Federal Ministry of the Interior

Just now in Bonn.

A special commando of
the Federal Border Guard

had started the operation at the
airport of Mogadishu at 12:00 a.m.

Gasps of relief
after the long night in Bonn.

Government spokesman Boiling:

If the Federal Republic of Germany had
released the eleven terrorist perpetrators,

they would all have come back and
committed new, horrible acts of murder.

Through the concourse the only
surviving terrorist is carried.

Although badly injured,
she makes the sign of victory and shouts,

"The Arab cause is victorious. "

- Morning.
- Morning.

Mr. Raspe?

Mrs. Moller?

Mrs. Moller.

She is still alive.

Mrs. Ensslin?

Now the pigs have
carried it out.

They took the opportunity
and killed them all.

Stop.

But they killed them.

You guys killed them, for sure.

They are no victims
and never have been.

What?

What's that shit
supposed to mean?

You said yourself that the
Stammheimers' life is in danger

and that we have to get
them out, immediately.

They were your words.

They determined their own
situation until the last moment.

That means that they did it and
not that it was done with them.

And Ulrike?

Her too.

You never knew the people.

Stop seeing them
as they were not.

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