The Baader-Meinhof Podcast

Charles Morris was injured by the bomb that killed Lt. Col Paul Bloomquist in Frankfurt on May 11,1972. In this podcast we hear from Charles and his wife Ursula as they discuss the events that day and how that bomb … Continue reading →

A new Der Spiegel investigation into the killing of Benno Ohnesorg proves a police cover-up and implies that he may have been killed deliberately.

Eight million Germans expressed a willingness to directly support the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Were they serious?

Viva Maria: a fun 1965 Brigitte Bardot vehicle became the favorite film of radical West Germans. Why?

The Occupy Wall Street movement has a precursor in a left-wing student movement in West Germany of the late 1960s.

An interview with noted UK author and professor Carl Tighe on the conservative Springer Press (the hated enemy of the Baader-Meinhof Group) and the Springer Press' relationship with Heinrich Böll.

What happens when you decide to trade imprisoned terrorists for hostages? What message do you send to other terrorists?

The strange saga of Ulrike Meinhof's brain. How the brain of the world's most famous terrorist ended up sitting on a doctor's shelf for 25 years, and what we learned from it.

Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man; Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, Carlos Marighella's Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla. Three books that helped kickstart the Baader-Meinhof Group's attempted revolution.

A recent wave of leftist bombings in Berlin leaves Richard Huffman wondering if we are returning the the days of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

An interview with Allyn Phillips, friend and colleague to three US servicemen killed by the Baader-Meinhof Gang in Heidelberg in 1972.

We compare how the US buried bin Laden with how the bodies of Ensslin, Raspe, and Baader were buried.

The deadly Arizona shooting offers interesting and tragic parallels to the heated environment and rhetoric that helped give birth to the era of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

Last week, a federal judge in Brooklyn overturned the indictment of a Staten Island man who ran poker games in the back room of a warehouse, on the grounds that poker is a game of skill, not chance — and hence, such … Continue reading →

David Chesworth Interview – The Science of Poker Last week, a federal judge in Brooklyn overturned the indictment of a Staten Island man who ran poker games in the back room of a warehouse, on the grounds that poker is a game … Continue reading →

Publicly, Siegfried Haag was a lawyer for the Red Army Faction. But secretly he was the de facto head of the terrorist organization, planning violent actions across the Federal Republic.

Fritz Teuful, co-founder of Kommune 1, clown prince of the Berlin student movement, and inspiration of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, died this week at 67.

Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale Graduate school of Art and formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, discusses his acquisition of Gerhard Richter's famous cycle of Baader-Meinhof-inspired paintings for MoMA.

A Memorial day tribute to Lt. Col. Paul Bloomquist, the first American victim of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Even if you are a badass, you may always need a little help when you want to love your partner. click through the … Continue reading →

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Statistics from Altmetric.com The probability of arrest while driving at a blood alcohol level over 0.10% was 0.0058 (about one in 200). There is considerable interest in defining the relationship between the probability of being arrested for driving under the … Continue reading →

Interview with former West German Urban Guerrilla Michael “Bommi” Baumann. Pay attention to the moment when Richard realizes that this is the man who build the bombs that could have killed his parents.

An interview with Baader-Meinhof bombing victim Peter Glyer.

An interview with two of the directors of the sublime and wonderful Oscar-winning cartoon Logorama.

Chuck Huffman and Vicki Burkholder, parents of the creator of baader-meinhof.com, talk about Chuck's experience defusing West German terrorist bombs in the early 1970s.

The infamous RAF logo makes a surprise appearance in an Oscar-winning short.

The April 2010 arrest of Verena Becker puts the Baader-Meinhof Group back in the news.

An interview with legendary British musician Luke Haines about his seminal 1996 concept album “Baader-Meinhof.” cbd and hemp are some of the most important things in the industry right now with marijuana getting more popular every day in Canada. What … Continue reading →

An interview with Larry David Young, witness to the tragic Baader-Meinhof bombing of the Frankfurt V Corp HQ in 1972. A very long talk with a very interesting man.

Chris Cooley of the Tulsa band tHE pORTRAYL, talks about his interest in the Baader-Meinhof era and his song “Stammheim.”

  Are you the type of person who dips a toe in the pool to test the temperature or do you prefer to dive in headfirst? It's often difficult to navigate an entirely new field of study, whether you're just … Continue reading →

Customer experience (CX): the guide to customer success The attention for customer experience (also known as CX) has grown exponentially over recent years – and it keeps doing so with customer experience now being recognized as an essential focus to create business … Continue reading →

Noted author Ron Jacobs talks about witnessing a Baader-Meinhof bombing, and his work documenting the Weather Underground.

Talking Heads' “Life During Wartime” was inspired by the Baader-Meinhof Gang; we discuss.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu talks about “Protagonist,” which features an extensive interview with former terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein.

Professor Sarah Colvin talks about her fantastic new book exploring the language of Ulrike Meinhof.