The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)

SYLT JUNE 1967

Hello!

Come on now, sweethearts, out of the water!

Oh, mama, just a little more!

You're coming out now, right away!

You are already blue.

Oh, she's pretty, who are they?

This is the Shah of Persia and his wife.

Ah, my three graces.

Dad, what is a shah?

It's something like an emperor.

A shah is allowed to chop off the head of all people he doesn't like!

Come on, don't always tell the children such nonsense.

Truth is reasonable for man.

You can't joke with something like that.

Hello Klaus.

So, how's the revolution going?

At the moment - on vacation.

You will come to our party later, won't you?

Sure we will.

Well, see you then.

Yes.

Oh, Klaus, stop doing that.

Woohoo!

- Yes, you see, there we go! - You're totally getting on our nerves.

Yes, not bad either, at least she's smiling.

The Shah and Empress Farah had landed at 11:05 am.

With a special flight at Tempelhof Airport.

Upon arrival Empress Farah wore a fox-red complete with a black and White striped hat.

Stefan.

Hello, Stefan!

During the presentation march,

Shah Reza Pahlavi inspected the honour guard of Berlin's police force.

Stefan, my friend.

Fresh off the presses.

Okay.

Everybody listen up.

My star columnist

and smart wife has written an open letter to Her Majesty Farah Diba.

Now don't make a show of it again.

Come on, Ricky Baby.

This will be published in the next issue of Konkret.

But 5,000 of these leaflets have already been distributed at the universities.

Alright then.

"Good day Mrs. Pahlavi.

You tell about your Iranian homeland that it's very hot there in summertime.

And you, like most Persians, go to the Caspian Sea with your family.

'Like most Persians.'

Isn't that an exaggeration?

Most Persians are farmers with an annual income of less than 100 Marks.

And most Persian women

lose every second child to hunger, poverty, and disease.

And also the children who weave carpets in 14-hour days, do they too,

most of them, go to the Persian Riviera on the Caspian Sea in the summer?

You write that the Shah of Persia must have a son.

The Iranian constitution, you write, is very strict about this.

Strange that the Shah is otherwise so unconcerned about the constitution

that not a single uncensored line may be published in Persia.

That Mossadegh's minister of justice's eyes were torn out.

That court trials are held to the exclusion of the public.

That torture is part of everyday life in the Persian judiciary.

We don't want to insult you.

But we also do not wish

the German public to be insulted by articles like yours in the "Neue Revue".

Yours respectfully, Ulrike Meinhof."

Long live the Shah!

Shah, shah, charlatan! Shah, shah, charlatan!

Shah, Shah, charlatan!

Murderer!

Shah, shah, charlatan!

Tyrant!

Is he crazy or what?

Fascists!

Are you crazy?

Man, do something.

Don't touch me, motherfucker!

Hey, stop it!

Is there a doctor around here somewhere?

- Is there a doctor around here? - Let us through here!

- We need a doctor! - See what's going on here!

Are you guys stupid or what? Just look at that woman!

Can you help us? We have an injured person here!

What are you doing?

It just went off on me.

Are you insane?

Let's get out of here.

He needs a doctor.

It went on very peacefully and very privately at a fashion reception in a...

Has anyone seen my husband?

It was the personal wish of the Persian empress to get an

overview of the achievements in the fashionable field in Berlin...

Where is the bath?

Up the stairs.

Hello Ricky baby.

I didn't mean to interrupt.

They shot one of us!

They shot one of us!

Hey, listen up!

The cops shot one of us!

What do you mean by that?

They just shot him down!

These fascists want to kill us all!

This is the generation of Auschwitz, you can't argue with them!

They have weapons and we don't.

We have to arm ourselves!

Mrs. Meinhof, you have taken the side of the demonstrating students.

Why?

In the right-wing press, the blame for the disaster on June 2nd

has been put on the students themselves.

The Springer group in particular tries in its newspaper

to demonize the critical voices of the student body as rowdies and rioters.

"For these rowdies, noise is no longer enough, they need to see blood."

But the truth is that the protests of these students

have exposed our state as a police state.

That police and press terror reached its peak on June 2nd in Berlin.

And that we have realized that freedom in this state

is freedom for the police's truncheons.

But Mrs. Meinhof, with all due respect.

We all know that Kurras shot Ohnesorg dead and that Kurras will be acquitted.

This is pure demagogy.

This...

This is demagogy.

BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM

While America is discussing the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam,

Israel, with the help of the Americans, is plunging into a war of aggression,

which is shamelessly dubbed here as a pre-emptive war.

I think it's Israel's right to defend its country.

Then I guess Hitler's attacks on Poland, France and Russia were also pre-emptive.

That's completely one-sided.

This is not the way to discuss, Mrs. Meinhof,

with all due respect, I must say.

Now, please take the child into consideration.

This woman is not having a factual discussion.

How can you say such a thing?

American imperialism will stop at nothing!

First Vietnam, Bolivia and now the Middle East.

America has been pumping Israel full of weapons for years.

Every combat aircraft, every missile, every tank,

everything comes from the US and the Western industrialized countries.

Do you think the Americans are doing this out of humanitarianism?

Those bastards are just doing it to control the oil fields in the Middle East.

Now leave it!

They don't give a damn if tens of thousands of people kick the bucket.

I'm sorry, I have to go to church now.

Yes? But then also preach that over half the world's population

don't have enough to eat, while others bathe themselves in luxury.

That there is no point in just praying for a better world!

That they have to fucking fight back!

You should get married soon.

Ulrike, wait!

Wait!

At last.

Hello baby!

Well, Kitty?

So, here we go.

I hope that's enough.

What are you doing?

Why?

- Like this. - Hey!

What?

Well, I think we want to scorch the department store, not torch it!

Only hard actions get you somewhere, otherwise you can shit on it.

The wankers have to understand that we ain't bluffing.

What if there are still people in the store?

Now don't act like some half-gay chick.

Who's going to be in there in the middle of the night?

And if there is, then there's a fatter headline.

- Are you crazy or what? - Shut the fuck up!

Andreas knows what he's doing.

Open up already!

All right.

On my way.

Police, you're under arrest.

Police.

What's going on, man?

Police. Get up, put your hands behind your back!

- You are under arrest for arson. - Hey, hey, hey!

Good morning.

Under the continuing bombardment of U.S. planes on alleged Viet Cong positions,

the civilian population suffers most.

The harrowing images have prompted student protests in the (1.5,

especially at universities.

Thousands are also demonstrating against the Vietnam War in West Germany,

as here in Berlin, where anarchist Rudi Dutschke,

head of the extra-parliamentary opposition, is mobilizing resistance.

Comrades, we don't have much time left!

In Vietnam, we are being crushed every day!

Vietnam is in tragic loneliness!

It is not a matter, says Che,

of wishing success to the victim of aggression,

but of participating in his fate.

To accompany it either to death or to victory.

From German soil...

From German soil wars are still being prepared!

The Germans help and garrison towns are turned by the American military power

into bases for the war in Vietnam!

We will not allow the German government to be abused

by the Americans as a henchman for their imperialist war in Vietnam!

Rudi.

- You're Ulrike Meinhof, right? - Yes.