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Stammheim

Eine moderne Haftanstalt als Ort der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Staat und RAF
  • Sabine Bergstermann
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2016
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From 1974 to 1977, Stammheim was front stage in the confrontation between the state and the Red Army Faction. The terrorists effectively portrayed their conditions of imprisonment in the media as torture by isolation. Meanwhile, the state granted them privileges while tightening its legal controls. The situation came to a climax in the fall of 1977 when five prominent RAF members killed themselves while confined in Stammheim’s high-security wing.

  • Presents a detailed history of Stammheim Prison from 1959 to 1977

Author / Editor information

Sabine Bergstermann, Strategisches Innovations-Zentrum der Bayerischen Polizei

Reviews

"Ihre Studie [Bergstermanns] fußt auf einem immensen Fundus an vor allem publizierten Quellen, ihre Darstellung ist spannend und in den gelungensten Kapiteln geradezu fesselnd."
Elke Koch in: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 78 (2019), 446-449

"Sabine Bergstermanns Buch ist ein unverzichtbarer Beitrag zu dieser geschichtswissenschaftlichen Aufgabe."
Florian Jessensky in: Werkstatt Geschichte 77 (2017), 127-129

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 11, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9783110404999
Hardcover published on:
July 11, 2016
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110404821
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
338
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