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World Service,09 May 2011,10 mins

Ulrike Meinhof

Witness History

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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. Photo: Press Association

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