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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: German Autumn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, by the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) respectively, in autumn 1977.
Hijacking or highjacking is the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit.
The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a set of events revolving around the abduction of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, by the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) respectively, in autumn 1977.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a set of events in late 1977, revolving around the kidnapping and murder of former SS officer and NSDAP member, industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer by the Red Army Faction (RAF), and the hijacking of the Lufthansa aeroplane Landshut by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The term "German Autumn" is derived from the 1978 film Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn), which is a German film-collage in the form of a short film with news-report format.
He was forced to appeal to the center-left West German government under Helmut Schmidt for the 'first generation' of RAF members (then imprisoned) to be exchanged for him.
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  Germany Info: Culture & Life: Life: Wines
Tasting is the best way to appreciate the special character of German wines, as well as to understand the subtle differences which distinguish a Rhine wine from a Mosel wine, or a Riesling from a Silvaner, or a simple table wine from a late-harvested wine.
Her vineyards are located on steep south-facing slopes, in a few valleys and almost always close to a river which tempers the climate, acting as a heat reflector, helping to maintain a constant temperature day and night.
The German practice of harvesting grapes at various stages of ripeness (selective harvest) determines the official quality category of a wine and is also an important guideline when purchasing wine.
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  German Autumn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a set of events revolving around the abduction of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane Landshut, by the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) respectively, in autumn 1977.
He was forced to appeal to the moderately-leftist German government of Helmut Schmidt for the "first generation" of RAF members (then imprisoned) to be exchanged for him.
After political negotiations with the Somali leader Siad Barre, the German government was granted permission to assault the plane.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On April 24, 1975, the German embassy in Stockholm was occupied by members of the RAF; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.
The events in the autumn of 1977, possibly the biggest criminal and political showdown that Germany has experienced since the end of World War II, are frequently referred to as Der Deutsche Herbst ("German Autumn").
After German reunification in 1990, it was discovered that the RAF had received financial and logistic support from the Stasi, the security and intelligence organization of East Germany, which had given several members shelter and new identities, although this was already generally suspected at the time.
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 Red Army Faction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On April 25, 1975, the German embassy in Stockholm was occupied by another German group; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.
The events in the autumn of 1977, possibly the biggest criminal and political showdown that Germany has experienced since the end of World War II, are frequently referred to as Der Deutsche Herbst ("German Autumn").
After German reunification in 1990, it was discovered that the RAF had received financial and logistic support from the Stasi, the security and intelligence organization of East Germany, which had given several members shelter and new identities.
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 Dark Autumn
As the airship cleared a bank of clouds, her commander, Captain Kurt Frankenberg, saw 70 miles to the south, another zeppelin held in the bright glare of the London searchlights.
Another German airship was out there this night, and it had just plummeted to the ground in fiery ruin.
There was no doubt as to their morale benefits, the German people loved the zeppelin fleet, and each raid was greeted with the greatest fanfare throughout Germany.
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 Baader-Meinhof: Terms - German Autumn
"The German Autumn" was the name given to the 44 days in the fall of 1977 when all of Germany was gripped in a terrorist crisis.
After a GSG-9 raid ended the hijacking, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe all committed suicide in prison, bringing the German Autumn to an end.
The name "German Autumn" is of course significant beyond it's mere descriptive use; it served to reinforce the notion that German society was at an end of an era, that the progressive optimism of the late sixties had degenerated into a morass.
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 Red Army Faction - dKosopedia
After a day of violent protests by exiled Iranians, supported by German students, the Shah visited the Deutsche Oper; in the course of events after the show, the German student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by the police (whose tactics are today mostly viewed as overly aggressive).
On April 25, 1975, the German embassy in Stockholm was occupied by another German terrorist group; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.
After German reunification in 1990, it was discovered that the RAF had received financial and logistic support from the Stasi, the security and intelligence organization of East Germany, which had given several terrorists shelter and new identities.
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 German Autumn - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
After a long odyssey through the Arabian Peninsula and the murder of Captain Jürgen Schumann the terrorists and their hostages landed in the Somalian capital Mogadishu.
This happened on October 18 through the special task force GSG-9, which had been formed after the 1972 Munich Olympics' hostage crisis.
One consequence of the German Autumn was that the German government stated that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/German_Autumn   (399 words)

  
 Terrorism in Germany - Baader-Meinhof Gang
Their followers continued kidnapping and killing people over the next five years in an effort to secure their leaders' release from prison, but it was all in vain.
The German government used the terrorist crisis to approve new laws giving them broad powers in fighting terrorism.
Radical leftists protested, but the majority of the German people were firmly on the side of the government.
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 Central Illinois German Shepherd Dog Rescue - Urbana, IL
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We decided that the best placement for Autumn would be in a home where she was the only dog and could get all the attention her heart desired.
I posted Autumn on petfinder.com and other internet sites but all the replies were from people who weren't capable of taking care of her properly.
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 Terrorism in German: Red Army Faction - Background - German Archive: The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee ...
On April 24, 1975, the German embassy in Stockholm was occuppied by members of the RAF; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.
Possibly the most tense and controversial German criminal trial ever, the Bundestag had earlier changed the Code of Criminal Procedure so that several of the attorneys who were accused of serving as links between the inmates and the RAF's second generation could be excluded.
The events in the autumn of 1977, possibly the biggest criminal and political showdown that Germany has experienced since the end of World War II, are frequently referred to as Der Deutsche Herbst ('German Autumn').
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With this action, the 'German Autumn' began, the pinnacle of state repression and emergency legislation against the German left, carried out by a social democratic administration.
The next morning, the German state again freely dispensed its violence, as RAF prisoners Andreas Baader, Jan Carl Raspe, and Gudrun Ensslin were found dead in their cells, with Irmgard Moeller critically wounded.
But the German state's fight against the RAF has not ended, as the political prisoners continue to be subjected to a policy of isolation and destruction.
www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/97rad/20_Years_Since_Stammheim   (841 words)

  
 HCD/GermanLL/94   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The concentration program for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Germanic studies is intended to provide students with a highly personalized and wide- ranging introduction to the language, literature, and culture of German-speaking countries and to various methods of approaching and examining these areas.
Students planning to concentrate in Germanic studies are urged to spend at least one quarter in a German-speaking country as early in their course of study as possible.
Instead of adding to their number, we analyze some short German narratives from the eighteenth century to the twentieth (by authors such as Kleist, Hoffmann, Brentano, Tieck, Keller, Meyer, Raabe, Storm, Schnitzler, Mann, and Kafka) and debate the question whether the search for a definition is necessary or even desirable.
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 Joschka_Fischer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He is a leading figure in the German Green Party and was the party's top candidate in the 2002 election campaign, which saw an increase in votes and seats for the Green Party.
In the so-called Deutscher Herbst (German Autumn, fall of 1977), Germany was confronted with a series of leftwing terrorist (terrorism) crimes (Red Army Faction).
In 1985 he became minister for the environment in the German state of Hesse in the first state level red-green coalition in Germany ever (1985-1987), his appointment causing an uproar because he wore tennis shoes during his oath of office.
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 German Autumn -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On September 5, 1977, an RAF "commando unit" assaulted Hanns-Martin Schleyer, then president of the German employers' association, in (A commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League) Cologne.
He was forced to appeal to the moderately-leftist (A person of German nationality) German government of (German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918)) Helmut Schmidt that the first "generation" of RAF members, then imprisoned, would be exchanged for him.
After political negotiations with the (A member of a tall dark people inhabiting Somalia) Somali leader (Click link for more info and facts about Siad Barre) Siad Barre the German government was allowed to assault the plane.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Ge/German_Autumn.htm   (380 words)

  
 Hindsight turns German militants into T-shirt icons | csmonitor.com
On the 25th anniversary of the terror-filled 'German Autumn,' its perpetrators permeate pop culture.
The student radicals charged that their elders had failed to take to heart the lessons of the past, and that the West German state preserved many of Nazi Germany's structures.
In contrast to previous works about the German Autumn, the new films and books shy away from casting judgment on the leftist militants or the German authorities.
www.csmonitor.com /2002/1031/p07s02-woeu.html   (1043 words)

  
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Red Army Faction militant Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be released from prison, a German court said on Monday, after 24 years in jail for her role in killings that shook West Germany's nascent democracy in the 1970s.
The decision, which came after Mohnhaupt requested early release, was condemned by the relatives of her victims, in part because she has voiced no remorse for a campaign of kidnappings and murders which peaked during the "German Autumn" of 1977.
Mohnhaupt, 57, was arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five life sentences for her role in the murders of leading German figures including industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, Dresdner Bank head Juergen Ponto and federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- German court approves parole for leading Red Army Faction member
BERLIN – A German court on Monday approved parole for one of the last jailed members of the Red Army Faction in a case that has revived painful memories of the left-wing terrorist group's 1970s heyday.
Mohnhaupt was convicted in 1985 of involvement in nine murders, including those of West German chief federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the head of the country's industry federation.
She was finally captured by West German authorities on Nov. 11, 1982, as she went to an arms cache in woods near Frankfurt, which had been staked out by police for two weeks after they received a tip from locals who had stumbled upon it.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20070212-0722-germany-redarmyfaction.html   (659 words)

  
 صفحة جديدة 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
BRIGITTE Mohnhaupt, the 57-year-old German woman who was released from jail yesterday, was a main leader of the bloodiest wave of leftwing terrorist attacks against the West German establishment.
That nightmare, climaxing in the so-called German autumn of 1977, began with the April 7, 1977 assassination of Germany's federal prosecutor-general, Siegfried Buback, who was leading the fight to uncover and destroy the Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorist group.
German authorities are confident that Mohnhaupt will not resume violence, if only because the RAF no longer exists.
www.omanobserver.com /26/Daily/Analysis/Analysis6.htm   (531 words)

  
 Cabinet Magazine Online - America in Autumn
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic in the Federal Republic of Germany, second- generation members of the Rote Armee Faktion (RAF), popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, had launched a series of actions intended to secure the release of members then incarcerated in the Stammheim high-security prison.
Through a subtle interweaving of photographic documentation, Borgesian text, and footage from a local Bolivian event commemorating Che, Katz discloses and critiques the eroticized thrill exuded by the predators in the carnal presence of their defeated prey.
One might imagine these figures prisoners of war, but surely it is not possible that prisoners of the United States would be "packaged" in this way, in such flagrant violation of provisions governing the rights of prisoners as established by the Geneva Convention.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/10/america_autumn.php   (1109 words)

  
 Germans Mull Reopening Left-Wing Terror Murder Case | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 22.04.2007
German officials on Sunday called for reopening the probe of the 1977 murder of a federal prosecutor after a former leftist radical stepped forward to say a man serving time was not involved.
Buback became the first victim of a bloody era dubbed the "German Autumn" of 1977 when he was shot in his Mercedes car by a RAF gunman on a motorcycle in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe.
It targeted the German elite and the US military bases in Germany and is suspected of killing 34 people.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,,2451168,00.html?maca=en-findory-top-1083-rdf   (702 words)

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