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Surviving members of Baader-Meinhof

IRMGARD MOLLER She took part in the Stammheim jail suicide pact in which Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan Carl Raspe died on October 18, 1977. Despite stabbing herself four times in the chest, she survived. Released from prison in 1994, she now lives in southern Germany. She was one of the gang responsible for the attack on the US Military HQ in 1972.

HORST MAHLER The young socialist lawyer, who helped found the Baader-Meinhof gang in the 1960s, was kicked out of the group in the early 70s when his politics underwent a dramatic metamorphosis. Today Mahler is a prominent member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany and has cited his political goal as being "the destruction of Judaism".

SUSANNE ALBRECHT She was involved in the killing of the president of Dresdner Bank, Juergen Ponto in 1977. Albrecht, who was the victim's goddaughter, lived as a fugitive during the 1980s before serving a six-year jail sentence which ended in 1996.

BRIGITTE MOHNHAUPT Described at the time as "the most evil and dangerous woman in West Germany" she was sentenced to five concurrent life sentences in 1982 for her part in many killings, including that of Hans Martin Schleyer in the doomed attempt to secure Baader's release. She was granted parole on February 12, 2007, effective on March 27.

CHRISTIAN KLAR (left) He helped carry out the killings of Juergen Ponto and industrialist Hans Martin Schleyer. He was jailed for life in 1985. He has been held in a high-security wing of Stammheim jail in Stuttgart, built especially for the gang. He is hoping to be released early with a controversial pardon from German president Horst Kohler.

ASTRID PROLL Arrested in 1971 suspected of various robberies she was sent to a sanatorium on the grounds of declining mental health. She escaped to England in 1974 and has published a photography book of the Baader-Meinhof gang, Pictures on the Run, and has worked as a picture researcher for the Independent newspaper in London.

FIRST POSTED FEBRUARY 13, 2007

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