Create a new lightbox Save. Create a lightbox Your Lightboxes will appear here when you have created some. Save to lightbox. Other members of the gang it is believed have killed themselves to tries to be an. Photo Shows Gudrun Ensslin the calender of the Baadar gang shot shot herself in prison today. He is on a hunger-strike for 13 weeks to protest against the conditions of confinement for himself and other members of the group Dec. He and the other members of this group being in prison altogether 34 , had been on hunger - strike since September 13th, to protest against their conditions of confinement.
The lawayers of Holger Meins has brought a criminal charge on October 15th, saying that the forcible feeding did not suffice to keep their mandator a live. Almost every day the German Press carries headlines about the Group, which uses the same tactics as the South American city guerillas Jan.
Ulrike Meinhof, one of the leaders of the gang that terrorised Germany for ten years, and committed suicide by hanging herself. The head of the anarchical Baader Meinhof gang was the most wanted women in West Germany.
The city guerillas of the group are suspected to have laid the bombs in various German cities by which four persons were killed. Also the terrorists are responsible for a number of bank robberys. He is on a hunger-strike for 13 weeks to protest against the conditions of confinement for himself and other members of the group Feb. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book. Andreas Baader, 34, the leader of the Red army faction, the terrorist gang known as the Baader-Meinhof group and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin, 37, who became co-leader with Baader after the suicide in prison last year of Ulrike Meinhof, killed themselves in the prison at Stuttgart where they are serving life.
Other members if the gang it is believed have killed themselves, or tried to do so. Photo Shows:- Baader, the leader of the Baader-Meinhof group who shot himself in prison. After an unceremious funeral service the three coffins were brought to the graves, escorted by the dependents of the dead and ca. Andreas Baader, Jan Raspe, G. They should be released by the kidnapping of the Lufthansa-jet and Hanns Martin Schleyer. The suicidal attempt of Irmgard Moeller, also a member of the Baader Meinhof gang, failed.
The trial, which took three years of preparation, however only lasted for 7 hours, then it was adjourned to May 36th. Photo Shows: The scene outside the courthouse in Stuttgart which was under heavy guard during the first hearing.
Sartre did not understand any German and the interpreter stood outside. On the other hand, Bubeck for his part admitted that he, unlike Baader, never understood any French. It was a real Babel-like confusion of tongues. Though the visit was a failure, it was also very important.
It is of course easy and tempting to just conclude that the visit was a mistake, thus saving the great writer-philosopher. What we must do is try and understand his actions from his philosophy. There is no criterion whatsoever, over or beyond humans themselves, that will account for a choice. When as a worker I choose to join a Christian trade union instead of a Communist one, and by my joining confirm that humans beings ought to in fact reconcile themselves to the human condition because our true kingdom is of heaven, not of earth, I do not just join that union for my own sake, but I want all people to reconcile to the human condition: this way, all people are involved in the step I choose to take.
Analogously, when I oppose the imperialism of the capitalist society I live in, then that is my choice, which immediately implies that I will want to convince others of my point of view, lest I betray my own conviction. This individual choice immediately turning universal puts me in a position diametrically opposed to all those that do not hold similar views.
A choice thus entails a lot of intolerance, without which it would be a mere idea. Now combining this line of thought with the Marxist ideal of changing the world rather than just describing it, gets us an explosive mixture.
We can use these components to understand the Baader-Meinhof Group: their point of view was that West Germany was still a thoroughly fascist society and that choice was universalised into an imperative of the utmost intolerance that was subsequently put into practice. Ulrike Meinhof was fully aware of moving from description to action and all of her journalistic activities, for instance a television documentary on resistance called, Bambule, were cut short.
I take the oath, then, inside me, before myself, even before the group forces its oath on me. The fraternity-terror of the terrorist fraternity is absolute: once recruited, members turn traitor when they refuse any means of combat, such as murder. The terrorist movement is always absolutely right, and this is clinched by a terror that precedes the terror of its violent activities. When Kant is putting his categorical imperative into words he feels forced to smuggle in a human value as an absolute standard that cannot be legitimatised externally.
There is no ethical imperative except the one I take an oath to, and I take that oath before myself above all. This polarisation is understandable from a dialectical point of view: actually, fraternity-terror thrives within the scope of dialectics. His new secretary Pierre Victor had until recently led the French Maoist gauchistes that thought actions against the establishment were justified, as the state occupied France.
However, the gauchistes had not stooped to robbery and murder. After his Critique of Dialectical Reason he had set his mind on colonial liberation. In this book, psychiatrist Fanon argues in favour of the use of force on behalf of true freedom.
By using force, the people of the colonies might be able to heal the neuroses they contracted by violent oppression. Fanon was heavily influenced by Sartre who, for his part, made the foreword a eulogy. Colonised people cure themselves of colonial neurosis by driving off the colonizer in an armed conflict. When their anger flares up, they retrieve their lost translucence. Not only is violence engaged in to drive off an oppressor, it is even healing or, in psychological terms, therapeutic or, in Marxist terms: it develops the self-awareness of a colonized people: violence is necessary to elucidate class-consciousness.
Sartre wanted to show that terror is in any case a reaction to an initial, primary terror la violence originelle , which is being resisted by secondary terror: terrorism.
The initial violence is the force the establishment uses to assert its power. Concurrently, state violence exemplifies the Good or the desired standard. From such a point of view, counter terrorism is justified and the initial terror is to blame for any violence that is used.
I never witness violence but I am always involved because I always make a choice: to be the tormentor or the victim, to fight, profess my solidarity or play the part of the innocent bystander. To Sartre, these are the choices of free individuals under all circumstances. In Fanon, Sartre recognised the spirit of the French Revolution that had evaporated with the communists. Even though Sartre himself had been making careful preparations for the elucidation of the use of force, it was Fanon who ultimately explained violence to him.
Violence is to destroy the nodding, repressive and thus violent standard morality. The violence coming upon Western society is the manifestation of our own violence. Sartre wrote: The violence returns to us in this boomerang moment: it hits us, and no more than before do we understand that it is our own. Thus to Sartre, terrorism is not the manifestation of some lurking evil but rather a last resort against an initial terror that colonizes people or has them suffer the all-consuming selfishness of capitalism.
The violence involved in the fight is never its sole purpose. Clearly, understanding terrorism presupposes a dialectical point of view. The pamphlet circulated in ultra left-wing groups. Especially the Vietnam War had convinced urban guerrillas that the entire Western world was decadently violent and that, therefore, guerrilla warfare ought not to be restricted to the Vietnam swamps.
From the start, Sartre knew very well indeed what he got himself into. He remained faithful to his revolutionary commitment. By it, Sartre did not declare himself for terrorism but rather against the bourgeoisie, against the uncritical masses: and so the more fuss, the better! Not only did the Baader-Meinhof Group use Sartre, but in this respect he in his turn used the Group to drive home the dialectical point of the revolt against the Western powers.
Sartre perceived something that we are afraid to perceive today which is exactly why it is important : that the revolutionary energy of modern terrorism keeps society from sinking into the kind of grovelling bourgeois morality that Sartre himself experienced under the French Vichy government: a contended bourgeois morality that will do anything to avoid conflict and so maintains the repressive, underhanded terror of a society that works off steam by enriching itself and oppressing others.
The visit was not really a mistake, but still some questions remain unanswered. Why did Sartre talk to anti-intellectual Baader and not to the much more intelligent Meinhof? Why did he keep quiet when in , Meinhof was found dead in a cell, circumstances never quite cleared, and when in the same thing happened to Baader, to Ensslin, to Raspe?
For he was proved right after all, was he not? In , in the Stammheim prison, Ulrike Meinhof hung herself. Sartre was proved right after all: detention conditions had led to unbearable depression. A couple of months later, Baader and Ensslin died in their cells under circumstances that were never cleared up.
Now old man Sartre remained still. Oktober in Stuttgart-Stammheim war ein deutscher Terrorist. View all. Andreas Baader, Self: Wildentiere. Andreas Baader was one of the two namesakes of the Baader -Meinhof Gang. A juvenile delinquent, Baader was drawn towards the leftist student movement because of the excitement, and the potential for violence. He was convicted of the arson bombing of a Frankfurt department store, along with his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin.
Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof were the leaders of the Red Army Faction, an urban terrorist group which carried out kidnappings and assassinations in the s. They died under suspicious cicrumstances while in prison in Germany in German left-wing terrorist Yahoo Web Search Yahoo Settings.
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