The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History
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Walpurgisnacht 90
Walser, Martin 365. See also Vollmer- Walser proposal
Wegener, Ulrich 45, 52. See also GSG-9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)
Weinberger, Caspar 306, 309
Weissbecker, Thomas 367
Weizsäcker, Richard von 306n, 332
Wessel, Ulrich 28, 365, 371
West Berlin left 16, 84, 86–87, 90, 164–166, 221. See also Tunix; See also Tuwat; See also Alternative Liste; and guerilla 18, 56–57, 140
West Berlin Senate 165–166
West Berlin Yippees 18
Wie baue ich einen Molotow-Cocktail (How Do I Make a Molotov Cocktail?, film) 356
Wieland, Gert Jürgen 162, 365
Willy Peter Stoll and Michael Knoll Commando 96–98, 378
Wischnewski, Hans-Jürgen 40, 258n, 365; mentioned by RAF 247, 312
Wisniewski, Stefan 47, 365; captured (1978) 51–52n, 377; alleged planned jailbreak (1978) 54; trial (1980-1981) 152, 250, 385; eighth collective hunger strike (1981) 152; and Buback assassination 365; took distance from RAF 152, 261n,
Women Against Imperialist War xxv, 91, 170–172, 174n, 176, 382. See also militant women’s movement; during eighth hunger strike (1981) 154, 384; Giordano infiltration 189; on “peace” 224
women’s movement. See feminist movement; See militant women’s movement
Women’s Week 384
World Council for Peace 154
Wuster, George 373
youth. 164. See also generations
Yugoslavia (1978 arrests) 51, 53, 68, 329, 377–378
Zahn, Joachim 306n, 312
Zaire 117n,
Zaumseil, Gerd 69, 334
Zeis, Peter 268, 365
Zielfahndung. See BKA (Bundeskriminalamt): hunt for guerilla
Zimbabwe 123
Zimmermann, Eduard 59, i
Zimmermann, Ernst 295
Zimmermann, Friedrich 266, 283, 300, 365, 387
Zitzlaff, Wienke 31–32, 365
Zusammen Kämpfen 292, i–293, 388
THE AUTHORS
André Moncourt is the pseudonym of a writer with his political roots in the movements of the seventies and eighties.
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This title heads for the introductory sections of this book, as well as the text in sidebars, is set in Avenir, a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988. The title heads for RAF documents have been set in ITC American Typewriter Std.
The textface chosen for the body of this book is Sabon, a Garamond face designed by Jan Tschichold in 1964.
As a young typographer in the 1920s, Tschichold was a fan of the Bauhaus style, and had quite the collection of posters from the Soviet Union. For these sins he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933, and all copies of his books were banned “for the protection of the German people.” Unlike so many others, he managed to be released, and fled to Switzerland, where he lived for the rest of his life.
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