Andraes Baader2 April 1968
Bombs placed by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in 2 department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; they are later arrested and sentenced for arson
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Bombs placed by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight in 2 department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; they are later arrested and sentenced for arson
The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested & forcibly released by a Meinhof campaign
The four convicted arsonists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst S”hnlein, and Thorwald Proll are released from prison pending review of their cases
The leader of a "Red Army faction", arrested
Baader was arrested on 3 April 1970, Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, who was at that time a well-known leftist polemicist, and two other women freed him on 14 May 1970
Baader is arrested and Ensslin convinces her friend Ulrike Meinhof to be part of a plan to break him out of jail in May of 1970.
Journalist Ulrike Meinhof and two other women were allowed to join Andaes Baader, and aided in his escape by opening a door to admit a masked man who fired shots that wounded a 64-year-old librarian, hitting his liver.
Three women and a masked man escape through a window, and the group soon became known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
The leaders are arrested, after 6 murders, 50 attempted murders & numerous bank raids. Baader and fellow RAF members Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins are apprehended after a lengthy shootout in Frankfurt
Baader is arrested
Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners of all contact with each other as well as with the outside, all visits, including those of lawyers and family members, being forbidden. Deprives the Baader-Meinhof prisoners are deprived of their access to post, newspapers, magazines, television, and radio
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