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Choose 41 years old.

Mother of two twin girls.

And the West German guards had just found her,

hanging from the window of her prison cell.

The 1976 death of one of the most notorious leftists,

agitators and terrorists in Germany,

was officially deemed a suicide.

Some called the group she ran,

the bottom mine-hoff gang,

though she personally preferred the name,

Red Army Faction.

Ulrich Meinhoff looked the part

of an anarcho-communist gangster.

And the pictures that we have of her that survived today,

she has an open, honest, plain face,

staring directly and immodestly at the camera.

She often smokes a cigarette wearing stylish,

if simplistic clothing.

Her hair is usually unapologetically short

and she's typically in men's trousers,

flouting what was still a strong social convention in Germany

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