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Ulrike Meinhof
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Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.
— Published in “Vom Protest zum Widerstand” [“From Protest to Resistance”], konkret, no. 5 (May 1968), p. 5.
Ulrike Meinhof
German left-wing militant (1934–1976)
- Fame58.7
- Momentum0.9
- Germany rank#236
Source-basedStable
- Fame58.7
- Momentum0.9
- Germany rank#236
- Journalists rank#235
- Wikipedia50.2K
Lived 1934–1976, aged 42Germany
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A journalist who abandoned the typewriter for armed struggle, then died in a cell under circumstances that ignited conspiracy theories as combustible as the bombs her group planted.
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Born in 1934, Ulrike Meinhof worked as a left-wing journalist and author before co-founding the Red Army Faction in West Germany — the militant group the press called the "Baader-Meinhof gang." She is credited with writing The Urban Guerilla Concept in 1971, a manifesto that condemned reformism and invoked Mao to frame armed struggle as the highest form of Marxism-Leninism. Her first RAF operation was the 1970 jailbreak of Andreas Baader; she was sentenced to eight years for her role in the near-fatal shooting during that escape. After participating in the RAF's May Offensive in 1972, she was…
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We are acting for those who are trying to free themselves from terror and violence. And if no means other than war remains for them, then we are for their war.
— Stefan Aust, Terrorism in Germany: The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
Ulrike Meinhof
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Dare to struggle; dare to win! Attack and smash the power of imperialism! It is the duty of every revolutionary to make the revolution!
— The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History, Volume One: Projectiles for the People.
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