Don't miss the opportunity of seeing the year's best-made and most counter-romantic action thriller, The Baader Meinhof Complex. Unlike earlier depictions of the same events by German directors such as Volker Schlöndorff and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Uli Edel's film interrogates and ultimately indicts (and convicts) the West German terrorists rather than the state and society which they sought to overthrow.... There was a prevalent mystique in those days about the Cuban and Vietnamese and Mozambican revolutions, as well as about various vague but supposedly glamorous groups such as the Tupamaros in Uruguay. In the United States, the brief resort to violence by the Black Panthers and then by the Weather Underground was always imagined as an extension of "Third World" struggles onto the territory of imperialist North America.... The propaganda of the terrorists, on the few occasions when they could be bothered to cobble together a manifesto, showed an almost neurotic need to "resist authority" in a way that their parents' generation had so terribly failed to do. "[source]
Bundes Archive Images online website But there is also a Baader-Meinhof online shop !
The wanted poster heading reads: [source]
“Violent Criminal Anarchists – Baader/Meinhof Gang.”
The text begins as follows:
Information can be handled confidentially upon request and is being collected by:
Federal Police Headquarters – Security Group
53 Bonn-Bad Godesburg, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 1 – Telephone: 02229/53001
and by every police station
Beware! These violent criminals will make ruthless use of guns!”
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