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A Baader Meinhof victim
Autumn 1977 was a time of violence and death in West Germany. The Baader Meinhof gang kidnapped businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer - demanding the release of their colleagues in return for his freedom. His son Jorg, talks to Witness about what happened next.
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