Bruce Allen Scharlau PhD thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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The group mood altered between continued plans to free prisoners,
even hiring helicopters to the astonishment of watching policemen, 12 3
and a resignative mood that even went to contemplating mass deaths in
one final blow such as a suicide bombing at the annual US Army carnival
in Heidelberg Castle. Another vengeance idea was to have targets affixed
to trees surrounded by anti -personnel mines near Frankfurt, Stuttgart
and somewhere else, with the intention of luring policemen there with
reports of shooting. According to Werner Loetze this was the idea and
work of Christian Klar and Monika Helbing. Due to group dissension the
mines were cleared and the idea shelved because it was feared this would
discredit the group's image. 124
The three level structure of the early seventies remained the same
as the one designed by Baader and in use since at least 1975 to keep the
original imprisoned RAF leaders in control and contact with its members
on the outside. In the late seventies there were three levels. (1) The
hard-core organised into groups of five to twelve persons for
operations. There were forty members in 1979, half of whom were women.
(2) The lawyers who acted as liason between the active members, the
support groups and the imprisoned members. ( 3 ) Lastly, the support
groups who organised sympathy campaigns both in the FRG and abroad.
There were also the reserves for future active terrorists. There were
about 150 of these in 1979, half of whom were wQnen. 125
In spring 1980 the Second of June ceased to exist. 126 Most of its
West-Berlin members were integrated in Revolutionary Cells, which may
also explain the more violent tendencies of the West Berlin RZ as
exhibi ted in knee-cappings .127 The other Second of June members in the
FRG joined the RAF.128 However, imprisoned B2J members were already
123 Hans Schueler, "Kommissar Computer in Noeten" Die Zeit 1
September 1978, 3; and see the Dellwo letter in Die Zeit 2 June 1978 r 3.
124 Peter-Juergen Boock, "'Zum Selbstmord bereit'" Der Spiegel 9 (23
February) 1981, 123-4; 'Suicide-Actions' is what Sternebeck mentions in:
Der Spiegel 33/1990 r 62; and is confirmed by her husband in Friedrich,
Der Spiegel 34/1990 r 55; "Aktion Spindy" Der Spiegel 36/1990, 128.
125 Klaus, 45; Horchem (1979), 247.
126 The July 1980 issue of Radikal was accused of advertising for
the Second of June, thus assuming the group existed then. However, a
West Berlin court dismissed the case by deciding the group no longer
existed. Die Welt 16 July 1981.
127 Die Welt 3 November 1986; "Neue Anschlagsphase der
'Revolutionaeren Zellen' (RZ)?" TeITorisrrrus: Infonnationsdienst 2, 1986,
5.
128 Hans Josef Horchem, "Die 'Rote Annee Fraktion': Agitation und
Aktionen ihre Sympathisanten" r Beitraege zur Konfliktforschung 17 (3 )
1987 I 61-81, 61. Second of June, "Aufloesungspapier der Bewegung 2.
Juni", in: Jean Paul Marat (ed.), Widerstand Heisst Angriff!
erklaerungen, redebeitraege, flugblaetter und briefe, 1977-1987