Do the RAF pensioners feel remorse? Do they see their mistakes? The case of Daniela Klette reminds our author of very different encounters with former left-wing terrorists.
So this is how the fight against the system ends. In a slightly run-down apartment building in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The suspected RAF terrorist Daniela Klette is said to have offered no resistance when she was arrested.
What did Klette, now 65 years old, feel about it? Relief that it’s finally over? Regret for wasting her life on a murderous ideology? Neither?
The police used this photo to search for the suspected RAF terrorist Daniela Klette
The RAF has been with me since my childhood. Not just in the form of wanted posters in black and white that we stood in front of as children in horror and amazement. I come from Karlsruhe, where on Maundy Thursday in 1977 the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback was shot at an intersection. Just a few minutes’ walk from my school, where the RAF terrorist Günter Sonnenberg was also a student.