The Red Army Faction, a Documentary History (85 page)

Swiss People's Bank
109

Switzerland
60–61
,
79
; prisoners from West German guerilla
61
n
,
115
,
154
,
371
; Zurich bank robbery
109–111

Taufer, Lutz
18
n
,
28
,
363
,
371

Tauras-Dorff Group
51
,
162

Tauras, Jürgen
51
,
363

taz
210
,
229
n
,
270
n
; founded (1978)
86–87
,
363

Teufel, Fritz
363
; captured (1975)
58
; Lorenz-Drenkmann trial (1978-1979)
64
,
377
; and Entebbe skyjacking
73
,
372
; mentioned
138
,
140
; social revolutionary politics
64
n
,

Thatcher, Margaret
177
,
227
,
363
,
380
,
383

Thimme, Johannes
202
,
364

Third International Russell Tribunal on Civil Liberties in West Germany
. See
Russell Tribunal on Civil Liberties in West Germany

Third Reich
. See
Federal Republic of Germany: Third Reich successor state;
See
Nazis, former

Thomas, Simon
353

Traube, Klaus
256
n
,

Treuhandanstalt
343
n
,

Tröber, Peter
283

Tunix
84
–86,
,
i
,
166
n
,
376

Tupamaros Munich
18
,
351

Tupamaros (Uruguay)
11
,
305
,
307

Tupamaros West Berlin
18
,
140–141
,
354

Turkey
123
,
164
; coup (1980)
174–175
,
178
,
383
; mentioned by guerillas and prisoners
40
,
118
,
178
,
193
,
195
,
197
,
200

Tuwat
166
,
181–182
,
384

Uganda
72
,
372

undogmatic left
85
,
89
. See also
Tunix;
See also
Spontis

United States
2–4
,
121–125
,
227
,
380–381
,
383
. See also
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization); antiimperialists
4
,
10–12
,
171
; and counterinsurgency
29
n
,
67
,
72
,
173–174
,
199
,
255
,
260
n
; targeted by RAF
24
,
106–107
,
116–118
,
179–183
,
197–200
,
368
,
384–385
; mentioned by RAF
55
n
,
116–117
,
193–194
,
197–199
,
235–236
,
240–241
,
246–248
,
305
,
309
. See also
RAF ideas on: imperialism's current situation; mentioned elsewhere
138
,
145–146
,
177–178
; targeted by others
31–32
,
85
,
151
,
156
,
179
,
181–182
,
185
,
222–223
,
225–226
,
282–283
,
288
,
381–382

Uruguay
122
,
360
. See also
Tupamaros (Uruguay)

USSR
. See
Soviet Union

Ustashe
53
n
,

Verein zur Rehabilitierung der wegen Bestreitens des Holocaust Verfolgten
355

Verfassungsschutz
xxiii
,
xxvi
,
99
,
254
,
257
,
324–325
. See also
Lochte, Christian; and Verena Becker
230–231
,
383
,
385
; antiguerilla activities
29
n
,
97
,
136
,
163
,
189
,
270–271
,
283–284
; criticized by Russell Tribunal
101
,
324–325
,
327
,
379
; statements on RAF
107
,
339–340

Verfassungsschutz (Hamburg)
. See
Lochte, Christian

Vetter, Heinz Oskar
306
n
,

Viehmann, Klaus
364
; captured (1978)
66–67
,
377
; Regarding the Alleged Dissolution of the 2nd of June Movement (1980)
132
,
140–149
; social revolutionary politics
64
n
,
66

Vietnam War
2–4
; and RAF
18
n
, –19,
24
,
156
n
,
366
,
368
. See also
RAF ideas on: Vietnam as turning point; opposition to
6–7
,
18

Viett, Inge
57
,
i
,
61–62
,
132
i
,
204
i
,
364
. See also
2nd of June Movement; multiple arrests and escapes from prison (1972-1976)
58–59
,
372
; release demanded by Entebbe skyjackers (1976)
372
; Palmers kidnapping (1977)
59–60
; detained in Czechoslovakia (1978)
68
,
377
; in France (1979- 1981)
129
,
204
,
384
; leaves guerilla (1982)
204
,
385
; captured (1991)
333
; anti-imperialist politics and decision to join RAF
64
n
,
131–132
,
134
; contact with Stasi
68–69
,
134
,
334
,
337
; statements about Stasi
183–184
,
333

violence against women
89
,
157
n
,
172
,
175
,
387

Violleau, Francis
204
,
384

Violleau, Yolaine
204
n
,

Vogel, Andreas
364
; captured (1976)
58
; attempted jailbreak (1978)
65–66
,
377
; Lorenz-Drenkmann trial (1978- 1979)
64
,
377
; anti-imperialist politics
64
n
,
66
; on Grußaktion
279–280
; and RAF prisoners
94
,
279

Vogel, Hans-Jochen
102
,
185
,
302
,
364

Voigt, Helmut
69
,
336
,
364

Voigt, Karsten
185

Vollmer, Antje 364
. See also
Vollmer- Walser proposal

Vollmer-Walser proposal
342
,
364–365

VSP (United Socialist Party)
xxv

Wackernagel, Christof
364
; captured (1977)
49
,
375
; in prison in Holland (1977-1978)
94
,
376
,
378
; trial (1980)
152
,
383
; campaign for amnesty (1982)
269–270

Wagner (Judge)
250

Wagner, Rolf Clemens
364–365
; joins Taurus-Dorff Group then joins RAF (pre-1976)
51
; captured and released (1978, Yugoslavia)
51–53
,
329
,
377–378
; captured during Zurich bank robbery (1979)
109–111
,
381
; trial, prison, and extradition from Switzerland (1979-1982)
110
,
154
,
383
; statement on Boock's lies
328–332
; on hunger strikes
26
n
; on Vietnam War
19
n
; support from mother
153

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
306
n
,
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
,
258
n
,
365
; mentioned by RAF
247
,
312

Wisniewski, Stefan
47
,
365
; captured (1978)
51–52
n
,
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
,
261
n
,

Women Against Imperialist War
xxv
,
91
,
170–172
,
174
n
,
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
306
n
,
312

Zaire
117
n
,

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

André Moncourt is the pseudonym of a writer with his political roots in the movements of the seventies and eighties.

J. Smith is the pseudonym of an activist who has been involved in the radical left for over twenty years.

Both feel very lucky to have had a chance to tell this story.

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.