Gudrun Ensslin - the early years

Gudrun Ensslin - the early years

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 25, 1968

Runtime

0h 10m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Gudrun Ensslin - the early years

Production Companies

NDR

Director

Peter Merseburger

Description

How the graduate student Gudrun Ensslin became a radical and violent woman. After the department store fire in Frankfurt, November 1968, in which Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader was involved the violence and their actions escalated. Soon they were joined by Ulrike Meinhof, Together the three created the urban guerrilla of West Germany, the Baader-Meinhof Gang a.k.a. die RAF - die Rote Armee Fraktion. An episode out of Panorama, NDR.