This volume presents pictures from ten crucial years of German post-war history. Beginning with the death of the student Benno Ohnesorg in 1967, it covers the murder of the President of the Employers' Association, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, in 1977, and the story of the Red Army Faction
The late 1960s were a time for student rebellion, and there were varying degrees to which the protestors took their message. One of the most notorious groups of student rebels was known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a collective led by Andreas Baader that had as its goal one thing: civil war within Germany. Over the next 30 years the group went on a spree that cost more than 30 lives; last April, it put out a press release that said the group had dissolved. Baader Meinhof: Pictures on the Run 67-77 documents the first ten years of the group as seen through the eyes of Astrid Proll. Proll was a student in 1967, when she became acquainted with Baader. Over the next ten years, she took pictures of her colleagues' exploits; those are on display in the book, along with Proll's look back at the years when she and her colleagues "overestimated [them]selves ridiculously...indulging in the illusion that a revolution was thinkable." These photographs show radicalism at its most violent and, ultimately, deadly.