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Three decades after their bloody heyday, when they terrorised Germany with assassinations, bombings and kidnappings, the left-wing terrorists of the RAF - popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang - still haunt the nation. The secret worship, and overt scorn, evident at the cemetery are echoes of the trauma that accompanied the darkest chapter in West German history.
While we Germans can at last talk about the Nazi era, the so-called “leaden time” of the RAF is still a painfully unresolved subject. That rawness has been brought to the fore this year by The Baader Meinhof Complex, a feature film (pictured below) based on the group's founders. It opens in Britain on Friday, and has provoked fierce criticism from the victims' families, historians and the daughter of the terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, Bettina Röhl, who long ago decried her mother's violence. “It glorifies brutal killers as good-looking idealists. It trivialises their terror,” she says.
Baader-Meinhof: the truth behind the twisted myth - Times Online