In Stuttgart, the court sentenced the three surviving members of the extreme left group "Baader-Meinhof" to life imprisonment. Commentary on archival images related to the anarchist group.
Interview with Otto SCHILY, lawyer for some members of the Red Army Fraction, who questioned the alleged suicides of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe at the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison.
Retrospective on the band in Baader, a far left group that appeared in the 1960s in Germany. At the time, they occupied old houses, sacrificed to real estate speculation. After the fever of 1968, there remained only a handful of armed fighters ready to do anything; robbery, attack, political execution have become the instruments of German terrorism. Their goal is to shake a hated official power, as judged objective accomplice of American imperialism and capitalism in general. This German terror often found shelter in their Palestinian counterparts, where they benefited from paramilitary training. What Abu Sharif, Palestinian spokesman. Archival images punctuate this report, including photos of Andreas BAADER, Gudrun ENSSLIN, Ulrike MEINHOF and images of her funeral in the presence of Klaus CROISSANT, the band’s lawyer in Baader.
Interview in French of Klaus CROISSANT, Band lawyer in Baader, indicted in Germany and refugee in France. He explains that the aim of the Red Army Fraction’s struggle is to fight the veiled fascism of the German government.
Invited on the set of the TV show Italiques to talk about his book "La bande à Baader", the writer Jean Louis BRAU explains that it is the absence of a mastermind that pushed Andreas Baader into direct action.
While the representative of the German employers Hanns-Martin Schleyer has just been kidnapped, Rupert VON PLOTTNITZ, former lawyer of Andreas Baader, Regrets that the urban guerilla actions developed by the Red Army Fraction are not analyzed as a political phenomenon by the German power.
In December 1974, Jean Paul SARTRE visited Andreas Baader in his cell in Germany, while he began his hunger strike. The writer supports the ideas of the movement but does not approve of its methods.