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Communiqués & Statements

Titles in bold are communiqués, papers and interviews from the Red Army Faction.
Titles in red are from the Struggle Against World Imperialism Organization, a Palestinian group which hijacked a Lufthansa airliner in 1977 in support of the RAF, at the time of the Schleyer kidnapping.
Titles in green are supporting documents.
All other documents are from Red Army Faction prisoners, either collectively or individually.

An attempt has been made to translate these documents in as accessible and understandable form as possible - where there has been a choice between word-by-word accuracy and effective expression of the concept in question, the latter has been chosen. Many footnotes have been added by the web-editor to provide information about the context surrounding these statements.

Please send any corrections to web-editor@germanguerila.com

April 1971
The Urban Guerilla Concept
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May 14th 1972
For The Victory Of The People Of Vietnam
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May 16th 1972
Commando Thomas Weisbecker
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May 20th 1972
Fight Fascism
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May 20th 1972
Expropriate Springer
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May 25th 1972
Attack On The American Armed Forces Headquarters
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May 28th 1972
Communiqué to the West German Press
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May 29th 1972
About The Fascist Bomb Threats In Stuttgart
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June 16th 1972 -
February 9th 1973
Ulrike Meinhof Writes From The Dead Wing
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September 13th 1974
Ulrike Meinhof’s Statement Regarding The Freeing Of Andreas Baader
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October 31st 1974
Holger Meins’ Last Letter
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April 24th 1975
Statement of Commando Holger Meins
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June 18th 1975
Andreas Baader's Statement at the Stammheim Trial
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August 19th 1975
Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe and Ulrike Meinhof's Statement Regarding Their Identity at the Stammheim Trial
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March 19th 1976
Two Letters From Ulrike Meinhof to Hanna Krabbe
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April 13th 1976
Ulrike Meinhof's Last Letter: Addressed to Comrades in the Hamburg Prison
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April 1976
Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof’s Intervention In The Trial Of Commando Holger Meins
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May 4th 1976
History Of The FRG and The Old Left: Fragment From An Intervention In The Stammheim Trial
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(January) May 11th 1976
Fragment Regarding Structure by Ulrike Meinhof which was to be presented at Stammheim
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May 11th 1976
Statement Of Jan-Carl Raspe At The Trial In Stuttgart-Stammheim
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July 22nd 1976
The Structure of the RAF (statements by Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Helmut Pohl in Stammheim) HTML
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July 1976
Prisoners Interviewed by Le Monde Diplomatique HTML
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1976
The October Revolution and the Third International: Summary of the Discussion In Stammheim
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April 7th 1977
Attack Against Siegfried Buback
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August 14th 1977
Ponto Kidnapping
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September 3rd 1977
Attack On The Federal Prosecutors Office in Karlsruhe
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September 6th 1977
Second Communiqué Regarding Schleyer
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October 13th 1977
Final Communiqué Regarding Schleyer
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October 13th 1977
SAWIO: Operation Kofr Kaddum
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October 13th 1977
SAWIO Ultimatum
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June 25th 1979
Haig Assassination Attempt
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February 6th 1981
Hungerstrike Statement (prisoners from the RAF) HTML PDF
August 31st 1981
Attack on the USAFE In Ramstein
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September 15th 1981
Kroesen Assassination Attempt
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May 1982
The Guerilla, the Resistance and the Anti-Imperialist Front (Strategy Paper)
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December 1984
Hungerstrike Statement HTML PDF
December 1984
Statement Regarding the Association Of Political Prisoners
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January 1985
For the Unity of Revolutionaries in West Europe (RAF & Action Directe)
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February 1st 1985
RAF Attack Against Ernst Zimmerman
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February 1985
Statement Regarding End of Hungerstrike
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April 1985
Interview With Comrades From the RAF
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August 8, 1985
Communiqué #1 re: Rhein-Main Air Base
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August 25, 1985
Communiqué #2 re: Rhein-Main Air Base
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September 1985
Interview with Comrades from the RAF
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January 1986
To Those Who Struggle Alongside Us
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July 9th 1986
Communiqué re: Siemens Action
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October 10th 1986
Communiqué re: On the Action Against Braunmohl
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September 1988
Statement of the Red Brigades and the RAF
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September 21st 1988
RAF Attack on Hans Tietmeyer
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February 1989 To The Revolutionary Prisoners in the Imperialist Prisons of Western Europe
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February 1st 1989 Hungerstrike Statement (Helmut Pohl on behalf of political prisoners in West Germany) HTML PDF
May 1989
Letter from Karl-Heinz Dellwo (from Prison News Service)
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May 20th 1989
Letter from Eva Haule (from Prison News Service) HTML PDF
December 2nd 1989
RAF Attack on Herrhausen
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April 4th 1991
communiqué re : Rohwedder action
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January 18th 1992 Letter from Gunter Sonnenberg HTML PDF
January 24th 1992
communiqué re : Nonne
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April 10th 1992
To All Those Who Are Searching…
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April 15th 1992
Statement Regarding the RAF Ceasefire (Irmgard Moeller on behalf of the prisoners from the RAF and the Resistance) HTML PDF
May 18th 1992 der Spiegel interview with Irmgard Moeller HTML PDF
June 1992
Konkret Interview with RAF Prisoners Lutz Taufer, Karl-Heinz Dellwo & Knut Folkerts
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June 20th, 1992
There is Much Which Unites Us  (Gunter Sonnenberg) HTML PDF
August 1992
We Must Search For Something New (Discussion Paper)
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September 1992
Christian Klar’s Trial Statement – Stammheim Process
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June 29th 1992
Greetings To All Those Taking Part in the Demonstrations and Congresses Against the World Economic Summit in Munich!
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1992 or 1993?
Interview with Four Women Political Prisoners in Luebeck, Germany
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March 30th 1993
Weiterstadt Prison Communiqué
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June 29th 1993
Letter from Birgit Hogefeld
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June 30th 1993
Witness Statement Regarding the Shooting of Wolfgang Grams
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July 6th 1993 communiqué re: arrest of Birgit Hogefeld and murder of Wolfgang Grams HTML
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July 22nd 1993
The Treason of Klaus Steinmetz (Birgit Hogefeld) HTML PDF
August to October 1993 RAF Split Documentation HTML PDF
June 15th 1996
Interview With Political Prisoner Helmut Pohl
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March 1998
"The Urban Guerrilla Is History...": The Final Communiqué from the Red Army Faction HTML PDF

Related Texts

The Stammheim Model, by Michael Ryan, New Studies on the Left, Vol. XIV, Nos. 1 & 2 (1989)

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