The Baader Meinhof Complex

Hey! Come on,

Mouse, out of the water!

Oh, Mama. A little longer.

- I said out! Right now!

You're both completely blue!

They're pretty.

- Who are they?

The Shah of Iran and his wife.

- Ah, my three Graces.

Papa, what is a Shah?

- Sort of like a king.

A Shah may cut off the

head of anyone he dislikes.

Don't tell the children such rubbish.

- The Truth is Simple.

With such power, there is no joke.

- Hallo, Klaus.

And? How goes the Revolution?

- Right now, it's on holiday.

Will you to come to our party tonight?

- Certainly.

Well, until then.

- Yes.

Ah, Klaus, not now.

Yeah, sure, OK.

- It makes me nervous.

Yes, but not very much.

So cheer up.

The royal couple landed at 11.05...

in a private plane

at Tempelhof airport.

Empress Farah wore a fox-fur coat

and a black and white hat.

Stefan!

Stefan!

The Shah inspected an

honour-guard of the Berlin Police.

Stefan, dear friend.

Fresh off the presses.

OK.

For all to hear.

My clever star-journalist wife...

wrote an open letter

to her imperial highness Farah Diba.

Don't make a big deal of it.

- It'll be in the next edition.

already at the universities.

Very good.

Good day, Mrs Pahlevi. There's a story

in the New Review about life in Iran,

about how hot it gets there,

and how you, like most Persians,

like to holiday on the Caspian coast.

Like most Persians?

Isn't that an exaggeration?

Most Persians are farmers,

and make less than 100 Marks a year.

And half of all Persian

mothers die giving birth.

From hunger, poverty and illness.

And the children work

Do most of them really holiday

with you at the Caspian seaside?

They write:

"The Shah must have a son. "

Iranian Law is

very strict on that point.

Strange that it seems so

unimportant to the Shah.

And no official statement is made.

That the Minister of Justice

makes no comment.

That unofficial courts

are held in secret.

That torture is allowed

under Persian law.

We do not want to insult you.

But the German public

should not be insulted

with crap like this

story in the New Review.

Faithfully,

Ulrike Meinhof.

Welcome, Pahlevi!

- Princess, Princess!

Farah! Farah Diba!

Murderer!

Are they crazy?

Murderer!

Are you crazy?

What are you doing?

Don't push me, you wanker!

Stop!

Is there a doctor here?

Let us through!

It's out of control here.

Are you stupid? There, the woman!

Can you help us?

We have an injured person here.

What happened?

He was attacking me.

- You are mad?

Let's go.

He needs a physician!

Mrs Meinhof, they were not on

the demonstrators' side. Why?

The right-wing press blamed

the disaster on the students.

Above all the Springer group

tried, in its newspaper,

to label the students as rioters.

"To shout is no longer enough,

now they want blood. "

But the truth is,

the protest proved that

we live in a Police state.

That the Police and the press

went too far in Berlin on June 2nd.

And that the only freedom

here is for the Police.

But Mrs Meinhof, with all respect...

- We all know that Kurras...

...who shot Ohnesorg, will be acquitted.

That is pure demagogy!

That is demagogy.

In America they discuss using

nuclear weapons in Vietnam,

and Israel starts a war of

aggression with the help of the USA.

which is called "preventive war" here.

- Israel has to defend itself.

Then Hitler's attacks on Poland

and Russia were also "preventive".

But you can't say that!

- Mrs Meinhof, I must say...

You must also consider the child.

This woman has nothing worthwhile to say.

The American Imperialist

machine will not stop!

Vietnam, Bolivia and now the Near East.

America has supplied

Israel with weapons for years.

Each warplane, each rocket,

each tank, everything comes from the USA.

Or the western industrial nations.

- They are not the people's friends!

The pigs want to control the

oil fields of the Near East.

It's just sh*t to them if

many thousands of people die.

I must now go to church.

- You should preach...

that over half the people in the world

do not have enough to eat.

Is it senseless to

preach for a better world?

That those condemned once again must resist!

You should get married soon.

Ulrike! Wait!

Wait!

Finally.

Hello, Baby.

- Well, Kitty?

So, here it is.

I hope it's enough.

Will it be enough?

- Why?

So...

- Hey!

I think... we don't want to

torch the department store

We need hard action to show

that wanker that we're not kidding!

And if people are still inside?

- Don't talk like a homo, Tussi.

Who'd be there at night?

And if there is:
a bigger headline!

Are you insane?

- Andreas knows what he's doing.

You're under arrest!

- Police! Halt!

Idiot!

- Police!

Handcuff them!

- You're under arrest for arson.

Good morning.

Under continuous bombardment

by American warplanes...

of alleged Vietcong positions,

civilian populations suffer the most.

In the USA, particularly at

universities, these pictures led...

the students to rise up in protest.

In the Federal Republic...

thousands of students protest,

such as these, in Berlin.

The Anarchist Rudi Dutschke

mobilizes the resistance.

Comrades, we don't have much time.

In Vietnam the bombs fall every day.

We must stand up for them.

As Che said:
It is not a matter of

wishing success to the victim of aggression,

but of sharing his fate.

One must accompany him

to his death or to victory.

From German ground...

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