Jeremy Varon (79 page)

Ulrike Meinhof’s funeral on May 15, 1976. Authorities said that Meinhof had hanged herself in her cell in Stammheim prison, but many on the left believed that she had been murdered. Some of the mourners are wearing masks to avoid identification. [dpa]

Hanns Martin Schleyer,

photographed on

October 13, 1977,

thirty-eight days after

being kidnapped by the

RAF. Six days later,

following the deaths in

Stammheim prison of

Andreas Baader,

Gudrun Ensslin, and

Jean-Karl Raspe,

Schleyer was found

murdered near the

French-German border.

[dpa]