Charles Morris was injured by the bomb that killed Lt. Col Paul Bloomquist in Frankfurt on May 11,1972. In this podcast we hear from Charles and his wife Ursula as they discuss the events that day and how that bomb has shaped their lives since.

A new Der Spiegel investigation into the killing of Benno Ohnesorg proves a police cover-up and implies that he may have been killed deliberately.

A new Der Spiegel investigation into the killing of Benno Ohnesorg proves a police cover-up and implies that he may have been killed deliberately.

Eight million Germans expressed a willingness to directly support the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Were they serious?

Eight million Germans expressed a willingness to directly support the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Were they serious?

Viva Maria: a fun 1965 Brigitte Bardot vehicle became the favorite film of radical West Germans. Why?

The Occupy Wall Street movement has a precursor in a left-wing student movement in West Germany of the late 1960s.

An interview with noted UK author and professor Carl Tighe on the conservative Springer Press (the hated enemy of the Baader-Meinhof Group) and the Springer Press' relationship with Heinrich Böll.

What happens when you decide to trade imprisoned terrorists for hostages? What message do you send to other terrorists?

The strange saga of Ulrike Meinhof's brain. How the brain of the world's most famous terrorist ended up sitting on a doctor's shelf for 25 years, and what we learned from it.