Hans und Grete, Bilder der RAF 1967-1977

Baader-Meinhof, Pictures on the Run 67-77
with an audio comment from Astrid Proll

“HISTORY OF THE RAF IS ALSO ONE OF THE IMAGES THAT IT HAS SET IN SCENE, EVOKED AND LEFT BEHIND: TODAY, WHEN I LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS BOOK, I SEE THEM AS A PIECE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, ALTHOUGH I WAS MYSELF AN ACTIVIST OF THE RED ARMY FACTION (RAF). THEY ARE DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC AND SEVERE CONFRONTATION TO DATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. THEY ARE WITNESSES OF DEATH AND TRAGEDY IN AN UNDECLARED CIVIL WAR. THEY SHOW VIVIDLY HOW A RUTHLESS AND USELESS STRUGGLE DEVELOPED FROM A SPONTANEOUS REBELLION WHICH THE STATE ANSWERED WITH EXAGGERATED SEVERITY. THIS BOOK NATURALLY IS ALSO AN APPROACH TO MY OWN HISTORY AND THE MYTH-DISTORTED HISTORY OF THE RAF.”