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Ulrike Meinhof

In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison.

She and Andreas Baader had led a terror campaign against the West German state in the early 1970s.

Journalist Stefan Aust knew her well, he talks to Witness.

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