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World Service,07 Sep 2010,10 mins

A Baader Meinhof victim

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Autumn 1977 was a time of violence and death in West Germany. The Baader Meinhof gang kidnapped businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer - demanding the release of their colleagues in return for his freedom. His son Jorg, talks to Witness about what happened next.

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