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Ulrike Meinhof: German ‘terrorist’ or Post-War Victim?

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Ulrike Meinhof - one half of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang that robbed, bombed, kidnapped and killed their way across Germany in the early 1970s. In hindsight, was she a deranged terrorist who took her own life to evade justice, or a misunderstood victim of a tumultuous, mid-20th century Europe? Support the show: https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/hindsight/

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