The Golden Age of Hijacking, Kidnapping and Radical Cold War Terror

The Underworld Podcast

Documentary, True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ulrike Meinhof is dead and the remaining founders of the Red Army Faction, aka the Baader Meinhof Gang, are behind bars in Stuttgart. Is this the end for Germany's most notorious hard-left terrorists? Those who pull the levers of power certainly hope so. But 250 miles north in Cologne, a second generation is gearing up for their most audacious kidnapping plot yet. And on a runway in Mallorca, some of the RAF's foreign comrades are about to spark an international incident that has the world hooked - and engages some of the gnarliest SWAT cops around. Featuring bombings, murders, bank robberies, a golden age of hijackings and the gunning down of the guy tasked with reviving East Germany's post-Cold War economy - part two of our Baader Meinhof double-header is a breathless account of the gang's spiraling out of control, and existence to a shockingly late date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.4	29 p.m. in Cologne, West Germany. Hans Martin Schlieer, one of the country's biggest
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1:24.1	flanked by a police escort. Suddenly a stroller veers into the street, Schlie's car
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