Gudrun Ensslin2 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 four convicted arsonists Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst S”hnlein, and Thorwald Proll are released from prison pending review of their cases
After serving a year in jail, Ensslin and Baader, and their two co-defendants Horst Sohnlein and Thorwald Proll are released temporarily pending an appeal, when the appeal fails, Ensslin, Baader and Proll escape to France as fugitives
Ensslin is captured
The Read Army Faction members are jailed individually in solitary confinement in the newly constructed high security Stammheim Prison in the north of Stuttgart
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