Jeremy Varon (78 page)

Chicago Police Department poster from April 1970 identifying eight Weatherman fugitives, sought for charges stemming from demonstrations the day the Chicago 8 trial began and for the Days of Rage. [Chicago Police Department]

l e f t : Benno Ohnesorg

after being shot by police

on June 2, 1967, at a

demonstration against the

visit of the shah of Iran to

West Berlin. He soon died

from his wounds, and his

death instantly radicalized

the West German New

Left. [dpa]

b o t t o m : Horst Söhn-

lein, Thorward Proll,

Andreas Baader, and

Gudrun Ensslin (left to

right) in court on

October 31, 1968, to

hear the verdict in their

trial for the Frankfurt

department store arsons

of April 1968. Baader

and Ensslin would go on

to form the RAF. [dpa]

Photographs of Ulrike Meinhof,

Andreas Baader, and Gudrun Ensslin

used by police in its search for RAF

fugitives. [dpa]

RAF Wanted poster. Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Holger Meins, Gudrun Ensslin (first row, left to right); Jan-Carl Raspe, Ilse Stachowiak, Axel Achterath, Ronald Augustin (second row); Bernhard Braun, Heinz Brockmann, Albert Fichter, Klaus Jünschke (third row); Irmgard Möller, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Ralf Reinders, Ingeborg Barz (last row). [dpa]

Damage from the RAF’s bombing of the headquarters of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, on May 24, 1972. Three U.S.

military personnel were killed in the attack, the deadliest of the RAF’s 1972

“May Offensive.” [dpa]

March following the funeral on November 18, 1974, of Holger Meins, nine days after his death in prison as the result a hunger strike. Gudrun Ensslin’s father, Pastor Helmut Ensslin, is second from the left. The sign reads: “The guerrilla Holger Meins was murdered by State Security and Justice.” [dpa]

l e f t : Jean-Paul

Sartre visiting

Stammheim prison

on December 4,

1974, to discuss the

treatment of RAF

prisoners with

Andreas Baader. The

RAF attorney Klaus

Croissant is on

Sartre’s left. [dpa]

b o t t o m : Weapons

seized by West

German police in a

raid on RAF cells in

Frankfurt am Main

and Hamburg on

February 2, 1974.

The cell, known as

the “Gruppe vom

4.2” (the date of its

capture), was

plotting to free RAF

prisoners. [dpa]