by J. Smith
Raging Panther Aunties 18
Ramírez Sánchez, Ilich 71–73, 347
Ramstein Airbase. See RAF: attack against USAFE Ramstein (1981)
Rapid Deployment Forces xxiv, 306n, 309
Rasch, Wilfried 95
Raspe, Jan-Carl 41, i, 358; captured (1972) 24, 369; interviewed by Spiegel (1975) 370; release demanded by Entebbe skyjackers (1976) 372; Stammheim trial (1976-1977) 30, 250, 365, 373; in Stammheim prison (1977) 34, 36, 39; death in Stammheim (1977) 38, 41, 45, 374. See also Stammheim deaths (1977); mentioned by Brigitte Mohnhaupt 315
Rattay, Klaus-Jürgen 207–208, 359, 385; mentioned by RAF 288
Rauch, Georg von 367
RDF (Rapid Deployment Forces) xxiv, 306n, 309
Reagan, Ronald 122, 173, 179, 359, 383, 387; 1982 visit to FRG and West Berlin 221–223, 225–226, 386
rear base areas 22–23
Rebmann, Kurt 134, 284, 359; during ‘77 offensive 36–37, 299–300; mentioned by RAF 150, 299–300, 314; on capture of Christian Klar 229; on Grußaktion 279; opposition to relaxed conditions for defectors 265, 269, 331
Red Aid 86, i, 133, 368
Red Brigades 4, 12n, 270, 313n; mentioned by RAF prisoners 195
Regarding the Armed Struggle in West Europe (1971) xv, 367
Reiche, Anne (Annerose) 57, i, 278; hunger strike (1980) 151, 381
Reinders, Ralf 57, i, 359; captured (1975) 58; release demanded by Entebbe skyjackers (1976) 372; Lorenz- Drenkmann trial (1978-1979) 64, 377; Regarding the Alleged Dissolution of the 2nd of June Movement (1980) 132, 140–149; mentioned 138, 140; social revolutionary politics 64n,
repression. See also §129a: used against alleged supporters; See also co-optation/ recuperation; See also repression, judicial; See also counterinsurgency; See also BKA (Bundeskriminalamt); See also computers; See also repression and movement dynamics; emergency legislation 313; mentioned by RAF and prisoners 17–18, 194, 201–203; pre-emptive 223, 256–257
repression and movement dynamics 227n; carrot and stick 114, 208, 269n. See also resocialization; discourages activity 127–128, 226–227, 283; provokes activity 17–18, 79–80, 86–87, 212–213, 227n, 241, 253, 284–285. See also RAF ideas on: the rupture in the metropole
repression, judicial. See also resocialization; See also §129a: used against alleged supporters; See also RAF trials; aboveground RAF thesis 187–188, 190, 201–202, 207i, 209, 276; collective responsibility thesis 250–251, 266, 268. See also RAF ideas on: collective responsibility; crown witnesses 230, 251–252, 371–372; hard core thesis 343; ringleader thesis 127n, 250; trial conditions 29, 322–323, 326, 370
resocialization 114, 261–266, 269n, 271, 281, 331
Revolutionärer Zorn 70, 216
Revolutionary Cells xxiv, 69–70. See also Rote Zora; See also Revolutionary Feminist Cells; OPEC raid in Vienna (1975) 61n, 71–72, 267; attack on U.S. Army in Frankfurt (1976) 32; Air France skyjacking (1976, Entebbe) 72–74, 82, 372; bombings leading up to Reagan visit (1982) 222, 386; other attacks (1973-1984) 70, 179, 209–210, 352, 369, 374; and anti-imperialism 64, 71; and antinuclear movement 81–82, 381; and Autonomen 168–169; and post-structuralism 214; and Tauras-Dorff Group 51; compared to RAF 70, 168–169, 191, 210–211, 213, 215–216, 293; international wing 5, 71–74, 267, 364; mentioned by 2nd of June Movement 147; targeted 174, 188; The Dogs Are Barking and the Caravan Moves On (1977) and The Dogs Always Bark (1978) 267
Revolutionary Feminist Cells 170
Rieck, Horst 367
Ritzmann, Olaf 288n, 382
Roaming Hash Rebels 18
Rohwedder, Detlev Karsten 343n,
Roll, Carmen 105, 359
Rollnik, Gabriele 96, i, 359; captured (1975) 58; escape from prison (1976) 58–59, 372; captured (1978) 67, 377; anti-imperialist politics 64n, 66; in prison 67–68, 103–104, 380; on RAF and 2nd of June Movement 131n; response to Dissolution Statement 132; support from mother 153
Rommel, Manfred 45
Rood Verzetsfront (Red Resistance Front) xxiv, 94
Roos, Helga 187, i, 359; dpa occupation (1978) 97n; charged for attack against Kroesen (1981) 188, 201, 385; hunger strike (1982) 188; conviction (1983) 276, 284, 387; mentioned by RAF 201; psychiatrization 190
Rössner, Bernd 28, 278–279, 359, 371
Rote Hilfe 86, i, 133, 368
Rote Zora 70–71, 170, 275. See also militant women’s movement
Roth, Karl-Heinz 58, 360
Ruhland, Karl-Heinz 251–252, 360
Russell Tribunal on Civil Liberties in West Germany 98, i, 100–101, 376, 379; conclusions 319–327; opposition to 98, 100
Russell Tribunal, Second 98
Salameh, Ali Hassan 258–260, 259i, 360, 379
SALT II 124, 381
Sandinistas 123, 304–305, 380, 383
Sartre, Jean-Paul 31, 267, 307
Sauber, Werner 56–58, 57i, 360
Saudi Arabia 71, 123, 312
Scheel, Walter 44, 255, 301, 360, 375
Scheer, Jens 80–81n,
Scheicher (Bonn Security Group) 67
Schelm, Petra 22, 360, 368
Schiller, Karl 307, 360
Schiller, Margrit 360; captured (1974) 35n, 369; force-feeding 36–37
Schily, Otto 88, 360
Schleyer, Hanns Martin 38–39, , i, 301, 312, 360, 374. See also RAF: kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer (1977); executed 43, 375
Schmid, Norbert 372
Schmidt, Helmut 39, i, 77i, 121i, 361, 383. See also Social-Liberal Schmidt- Genscher Government (1974-1983); antiterrorist grandstanding 27, 254; during ‘77 offensive 45, 299; economic program 76–77; on Green Party 88; mentioned by RAF 150, 199, 247–248, 299
Schmitz, Sabine 202, 361
Schmude, Jürgen 159
Schneider, Gert 361; captured (1977) 49, 375; in prison in Holland (1977-1978) 94, 376, 378; trial (1980) 152, 382; campaign for amnesty (1982) 269–270
Schneider, Jürgen 187, i, 361
Schneider, Peter 328
Schoner, Herbert 109
Schröder, Gerhard 262, 361
Schubert, Ingrid 35, 361; release demanded by Entebbe skyjackers (1976) 372; dies (1977) 43, 375; mentioned by RAF prisoners 112–113, 193, 376
Schulz, Adelheid (Heidi) 133, 228i, 284, 361; almost captured (1978) 54, 378; killings at Dutch border (1978) 55; captured (1982) 228, 387; squatting 210; statement on Boock’s lies 328–332; visit to GDR 337
Schumann, Jürgen 40
SDS (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund) xxv, 17, 58, 328. See also APO (Außerparlamentarische Opposition)
Seckendorff-Gudent, Ekkehard von 128, 361. See also RAF dropouts
2nd of June Movement xx; origins (pre-1972) 18, 140–141, 367; British Yacht Club bombing (1972) 62n; Drenkmann assassination (1974) 27, 57–58, 170, 370; Lorenz kidnapping (1975) 47n, 57–58, 60n, 133, 137–138, 142, 162, 371; Lehrter Straße Women’s Prison jailbreak (1976) 58–59, 372; Palmers kidnapping (1977) 59–61, 67, 130, 133, 375; Lorenz-Drenkmann trial (1978-1979) 64, 88n, 377; Moabit jailbreak (1978) 64–66, , i, 130, 377; in France (1979-1980) 129–132, 382; Statement Dissolving the 2nd of June Movement (1980) 132, 137–139, 210, 382; Regarding the Alleged Dissolution of the 2nd of June Movement (1980) 132, 140–149, 382; bank robberies 56, 108–109, 141, 367; factions 62, 64, 66, 73, 132, 140; former members 71, 88, 133, 278–279, 386. See also Viett, Inge; “fun guerilla” 56, 138, 140; “populist” or social revolutionary politics 18, 56–57, 64, 137, 143–144, 147. See also herein factions; prisoners 61n, 66–67, 94–95, 103–104, 130–131, 151, 279; and RAF 56–57, 60, 62n, 108, 137–138, 140–142, 367, 375; joins RAF 131–132, 134, 137–149, 204, 279, 382; and Stasi 68–69, 377
SEK (Spezialeinsatzkommando) xxv, 282, 284, 387
sexist abuse. See violence against women
Shah of Iran (Pahlavi) 122, 366, 379
Shultz, George 308, 361, 386
Siepmann, Ina 362; freed in Lorenz kidnapping (1975) 57, 371; detained in Czechoslovakia (1978) 68–69, 377; dies
during massacre at Sabra and Shatila (1982) 386
Sinn Fein 295
skyjackings. See Entebbe/Air France skyjacking (1976); See Mogadishu/Lufthansa skyjacking (1977)
Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ) 258, 308n
Socialist Lawyers Collective 355
Social-Liberal Schmidt-Genscher Government (1974-1983) 383, 387. See also Schmidt, Helmut; See also Baum, Gerhart; See also SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands); See also FDP (Freie Demokratische Partei); economic policy 76–77; lurch to the right 254, 272
social revolutionary politics; and RAF 310–311; and 2nd of June Movement 18, 56–57, 64, 137, 143–144. See also 2nd of June Movement: factions
Söhnlein, Horst 156n, 362
Somalia 146
Somoza, Anastasio 123, 380, 383
Sonnenberg, Günter 34, i, 362; captured (1977) 35, 373; trial (1978) 377; statement on Boock’s lies 328–332; release demanded 102, 115, 152, 153i, 192, 380, 384
South Africa 36, 82i, 374
South Korea 122, 146
South Yemen. See People’s Democratic
Republic of Yemen
Soviet Union; discussed by Antiimperialistischer Kampf 218–219; invasion of Afghanistan (1979) 123–124, 381; mentioned by RAF and prisoners 218n, 235, 244, 309, 342. See also RAF ideas on: East-West relations; mentioned by 2JM prisoners 145–146; targeted 15, 117n, 123–124, 375
Spain 4, 270, 353; mentioned by RAF and prisoners 115, 178, 193, 200
Späth, Lothar 133, 150
SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) xxv–xxvi, 16, 76–77, , i, 255–256, 299. See also Schmidt, Helmut; See also Social-Liberal Schmidt-Genscher Government (1974-1983); cooptation by 78, 165, 185, 223, 281–282, 295n, 307n; during ‘77 offensive 246–248, 299–300; mentioned by 2JM 147; mentioned by RAF 117, 246–248, 297–303, 306–309. See also RAF ideas on: social democracy; support for repression xxvi, 99–100, 167, 254, 272; targeted 156, 160, 181
SPD (West Berlin) 59, 65, 165–166
Speitel, Angelika 55, i, 252, 362; captured (1978) 55, 378; trial (1979) 55n, 250, 381; eighth hunger strike (1981) 157
Speitel, Volker 50, 253i, 362; arrested (1977) 97, 374; crown witness 101, 252, 261, 263, 379, 381
Spiegel 87, 160, 167, 252, 291, 336; during ‘77 offensive 300; interview with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, and Jan-Carl Raspe (1975) 370; interview with Gerhart Baum (1981) 263; and Peter-Jürgen Boock 264, 332; and Hans-Joachim Klein (1981) 266; interview with Horst Mahler and Gerhart Baum (1979) 262; interview with Irmgard Möller (1992) 42–43; occupied during eighth hunger strike (1981) 153, 384
SPK (Socialist Patients Collective) xxv, 366–367; former members 105, 349, 351–352, 354, 356, 359–360, 363, 365; and Holger Meins Commando 371
SPÖ (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs) 258, 308n
Spontis xxvi, 84; and guerilla 69, 71, 84, 267, 269; and other movements 78, 84, 89, 126, 164
Springer Press 24, 366, 368
squats 164–168, 207–208, 384; 12-12 riot (1980) 165, 383; comments by Gerhart Baum 257; Ekhofstraße 205; Hafenstraße and Kiefernstraße 209, 385; and RAF 152–153, 204–205, 209–210
Stachowiak, Ilse 35n, 362, 369
Stahl, Wolfgang 162, 362
Stammheim deaths (1977) 41–43, 45, 374–375. See also German Autumn; ideological preparation 299–300; letters from Gudrun Ensslin 41, 113; mentioned by Antiimperialistischer Kampf 218; mentioned by RAF and prisoners 43–44, 112–114, 118, 193, 248; NATO death squad theory 118, 174, 193; prisoners demand information 94, 113, 376; weapons smuggling theory 101, 252, 381
Startbahn West 166–167, 185, 188, 278, 385; targeted by Revolutionary Cells 179, 210, 352
Stasi xxiii, xxvi. See also RAF: and GDR; informants 17n, 347, 356; prosecution of agents 184, 336; question of providing arms 337; and RAF 46–47, 134–136, 183–184, 333–340, 383; relationship with RAF ends 227, 334, 339; and 2nd of June Movement 68–69, 377
Staub, Ernst-Volker 286, 362, 388
Sternebeck, Sigrid 128, 362. See also RAF dropouts
Stoll, Willy Peter 54, i, 362; almost captured and then killed by police (1978) 54–55, 127, 378; mentioned by prisoners and supporters 96–97, 119, 378
Stoltenberg, Gerhard 306n,
Strategic Defense Initiative 387
Strauß, Franz Josef 363. See also CSU (Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern); mentioned by RAF and prisoners 199, 247, 299, 300, 312, 340; and Olaf Ritzmann 288n, 382
Ströbele, Hans-Christian 88, 363, 383
Ströbele, Wolfgang 86
Struggle Against World Imperialism Organization. See Commando Martyr Halimeh
student movement. See SDS (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund); See APO (Außerparlamentarische Opposition)
Stümper, Alfred 314n,
Stürmer, Gudrun 363; captured (1978) 67, 377; anti-imperialist politics 64n; in prison 68, 103–104, 380; support from mother 153
Süddeutsche Zeitung 300
support scene 22, 161i, 168. See also Autonomen and anti-imps; See also anti-imperialism; attacks on 44, 100–101, 155, 189, 229, 256–257, 277–279. See also repression, judicial: aboveground RAF thesis; See also §129a; dpa occupation (1978) 96–98, 378; during eighth hunger strike (1981) 152–156, 157i, 159–160, 288; and German Autumn 44, 94, 100–101, 128, 211–213, 233, 252; and liberals 101; and May Paper 211–214, 216, 219–220, 227, 235, 238–243; and Northern Ireland 176; and prisoners 26–27, 31–32, 34, 96–98, 103, 120i, 151–153, 174, 262n, 276–281, 285, 288, 294i, 372, 378, 380. See also lawyers, attacks on; See also Russell Tribunal on Civil Liberties in West Germany; See also Grußaktion an die politischen Gefangenen (Greetings Action to the Political Prisoners); sabotage attacks 31–32, 156, 181, 184–185, 284–285; squats 152–153, 164, 204–205, 209, 288; and women’s movement 170–172
Swiss People’s Bank 109
Switzerland 60–61, 79; prisoners from West German guerilla 61n, 115, 154, 371; Zurich bank robbery 109–111
Taufer, Lutz 18n, 28, 363, 371
Tauras-Dorff Group 51, 162
Tauras, Jürgen 51, 363
taz 210, 229n, 270n; founded (1978) 86–87, 363
Teufel, Fritz 363; captured (1975) 58; Lorenz-Drenkmann trial (1978-1979) 64, 377; and Entebbe skyjacking 73, 372; mentioned 138, 140; social revolutionary politics 64n,
Thatcher, Margaret 177, 227, 363, 380, 383
Thimme, Johannes 202, 364
Third International Russell Tribunal on Civil Liberties in West Germany. See Russell Tribunal on Civil Liberties in West Germany
Third Reich. See Federal Republic of Germany: Third Reich successor state; See Nazis, former
Thomas, Simon 353
Traube, Klaus 256n,
Treuhandanstalt 343n,
Tröber, Peter 283
Tunix 84–86, , i, 166n, 376
Tupamaros Munich 18, 351
Tupamaros (Uruguay) 11, 305, 307
Tupamaros West Berlin 18, 140–141, 354
Turkey 123, 164; coup (1980) 174–175, 178, 383; mentioned by guerillas and prisoners 40, 118, 178, 193, 195, 197, 200
Tuwat 166, 181–182, 384
Uganda 72, 372
undogmatic left 85, 89. See also Tunix; See also Spontis
United States 2–4, 121–125, 227, 380–381, 383. See also NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization); antiimperialists 4, 10–12, 171; and counterinsurgency 29n, 67, 72, 173–174, 199, 255, 260n; targeted by RAF 24, 106–107, 116–118, 179–183, 197–200, 368, 384–385; mentioned by RAF 55n, 116–117, 193–194, 197–199, 235–236, 240–241, 246–248, 305, 309. See also RAF ideas on: imperialism’s current situation; mentioned elsewhere 138, 145–146, 177–178; targeted by others 31–32, 85, 151, 156, 179, 181–182, 185, 222–223, 225–226, 282–283, 288, 381–382
Uruguay 122, 360. See also Tupamaros (Uruguay)
USSR. See Soviet Union
Ustashe 53n,
Verein zur Rehabilitierung de
r wegen Bestreitens des Holocaust Verfolgten 355
Verfassungsschutz xxiii, xxvi, 99, 254, 257, 324–325. See also Lochte, Christian; and Verena Becker 230–231, 383, 385; antiguerilla activities 29n, 97, 136, 163, 189, 270–271, 283–284; criticized by Russell Tribunal 101, 324–325, 327, 379; statements on RAF 107, 339–340
Verfassungsschutz (Hamburg). See Lochte, Christian
Vetter, Heinz Oskar 306n,
Viehmann, Klaus 364; captured (1978) 66–67, 377; Regarding the Alleged Dissolution of the 2nd of June Movement (1980) 132, 140–149; social revolutionary politics 64n, 66
Vietnam War 2–4; and RAF 18n, –19, 24, 156n, 366, 368. See also RAF ideas on: Vietnam as turning point; opposition to 6–7, 18
Viett, Inge 57, i, 61–62, 132i, 204i, 364. See also 2nd of June Movement; multiple arrests and escapes from prison (1972-1976) 58–59, 372; release demanded by Entebbe skyjackers (1976) 372; Palmers kidnapping (1977) 59–60; detained in Czechoslovakia (1978) 68, 377; in France (1979- 1981) 129, 204, 384; leaves guerilla (1982) 204, 385; captured (1991) 333; anti-imperialist politics and decision to join RAF 64n, 131–132, 134; contact with Stasi 68–69, 134, 334, 337; statements about Stasi 183–184, 333
violence against women 89, 157n, 172, 175, 387
Violleau, Francis 204, 384
Violleau, Yolaine 204n,
Vogel, Andreas 364; captured (1976) 58; attempted jailbreak (1978) 65–66, 377; Lorenz-Drenkmann trial (1978- 1979) 64, 377; anti-imperialist politics 64n, 66; on Grußaktion 279–280; and RAF prisoners 94, 279
Vogel, Hans-Jochen 102, 185, 302, 364
Voigt, Helmut 69, 336, 364
Voigt, Karsten 185
Vollmer, Antje 364. See also Vollmer- Walser proposal
Vollmer-Walser proposal 342, 364–365
VSP (United Socialist Party) xxv
Wackernagel, Christof 364; captured (1977) 49, 375; in prison in Holland (1977-1978) 94, 376, 378; trial (1980) 152, 383; campaign for amnesty (1982) 269–270
Wagner (Judge) 250
Wagner, Rolf Clemens 364–365; joins Taurus-Dorff Group then joins RAF (pre-1976) 51; captured and released (1978, Yugoslavia) 51–53, 329, 377–378; captured during Zurich bank robbery (1979) 109–111, 381; trial, prison, and extradition from Switzerland (1979-1982) 110, 154, 383; statement on Boock’s lies 328–332; on hunger strikes 26n; on Vietnam War 19n; support from mother 153
