Ulrike Meinhof ended her turbulent life after 41 years by committing suicide in her prison cell - this was her last act of rebellion. Her personality remains a mystery until today. Unexpectedly, she transformed from a gifted, beautiful woman and a committed peace activist into the co-founder of Germany’s top-terrorist organization, the RAF.
Ulrike Meinhof was a mother, a wife, and a woman suffering from pathological aggression as well as never-ending self-doubt.
Why did Ulrike Meinhof exchange her life as a successful journalist for going underground to build an armed urban guerilla movement, the declared goal of which was to tear down the German state by sparking a mass revolution in socialist tradition?
What was the response of the Federal Republic of Germany's executive, judicial, and legislative branches to the innerstate terrorism of the RAF that lasted for nearly three decades?