In 1967, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza
Pahlavi visits, West
Berlin to attend a performance at
the Deutsche Oper. Angered at the Shah's repressive policies in governing Iran,
a number of young Germans show up to protest his appearance. The German police
and the Shah's forces attack the German protesters and one of them, Benno
Ohnesorg, is shot and killed without provocation by Karl-Heniz Kurras. The
murder outrages many Germans, including left wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof,
who had earlier written articles critical of the Shah. Inspired by Meinhof's
outspoken criticism of the government, Gudrun Ensslin leaves her common law husband and child.
Together with her new lover, Andreas Baader, and two others she carries
out a fire bombing of a department store in Frankfurt am Main
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