Editing Andreas Baader (section)

== RAF involvement ==
In 1968, Baader and his girlfriend [[Gudrun Ensslin]] were convicted of the [[arson]] bombing of a [[department store]] in [[Frankfurt]],{{sfn|Küng|2014|p=59}} to protest what they described as the public's "indifference to the genocide in Vietnam".{{sfn|Eager|2016|p=65}}

After being sentenced, Baader and Ensslin fled in November 1969.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Scharloth |first1=Joachim |title=1968 in Europe : a history of protest and activism, 1956–1977 |last2=Klimke |first2=Martin |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |others=Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-230-61190-0 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=105 |language=en}}</ref> They were smuggled out of West Germany by sympathizers and made the tour of the left-wing communities of [[France]], [[Switzerland]], and [[Italy]] before re-entering West Germany covertly in early 1970.{{sfn|Chalk|2013|p=481}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ciment |first=James |title=World Terrorism : An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |others=James Ciment |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-317-45152-5 |edition=2nd |location=Armonk, New York |pages=236}}</ref>{{sfn|Atkins|2004|p=37–38}}

Baader was later caught at a traffic stop in Berlin for speeding on 4 April 1970.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Demaris |first=Ovid |title=Brothers in blood : the international terrorist network |publisher=Scribner |year=1977 |isbn=978-0-684-15192-2 |location=New York |pages=227 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Steven E. |title=Toxic Terror : Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons |publisher=MIT Press |others=Jonathan B. Tucker |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-262-70071-9 |location=Cambridge, Mass |pages=96}}</ref> He produced a fake [[driver's license]] in the name of the author [[Peter O. Chotjewitz|Peter Chotjewitz]] but was placed under arrest when he failed to answer personal questions about the names and ages of Chotjewitz's children.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wisowaty |first=David L |title=The Baader-Meinhof group, 1968–1972: an account of its activities and an analysis of its ideology |year=1975 |pages=12 |language=English |oclc=38668584}}</ref>

Ensslin masterminded an escape plan. Journalist [[Ulrike Meinhof]] and Baader's lawyers concocted a false "book deal" in which Meinhof would interview Baader. A few weeks later, in May 1970, he was allowed to meet her at the library of the ''Berlin Zentralinstitut'' outside the prison, without handcuffs but escorted by two armed guards. Meinhof was allowed to join him. Confederates [[Irene Goergens]] and [[Ingrid Schubert]] entered the library carrying suitcases, then opened a door to admit a masked gunman armed with a pistol and then drew pistols out of suitcases. They then fired shots that wounded a 64-year-old librarian, hitting him in his liver. Baader, the masked gunman, and the three women then fled through a window.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Power |first=Jonathan |title=Amnesty International, the human rights story |publisher=Pergamon Press |year=1981 |isbn=978-1-4832-8601-3 |location=Oxford |pages=71–72}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Boyn |first=Oliver |title=The Divided Berlin, 1945–1990 : The Historical Guidebook |publisher=Amber Books Limited |others=Marie Frohling |year=2011 |isbn=978-3-86153-613-0 |edition=1st |location=Berlin |pages=92}}</ref>

The group became known as the ''Baader-Meinhof Group''. Baader and others then spent some time in a [[Fatah]] military training camp in [[Jordan]] before being expelled due to "differences in attitudes".{{sfn|Moxon-Browne|1993|p=437}} Back in West Germany, Baader robbed banks and bombed buildings from 1970 to 1972.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jamieson |first=Teddy |title=Whose Side Are You On? |publisher=Yellow Jersey |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-4090-2889-5 |location=London |pages=47}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Briggs |first=Briggs |title=Modern Europe |publisher=Pearson Education |isbn=9788131727577 |pages=365}}</ref> Although he never obtained a [[driver's licence]], Baader was obsessed with [[driving]]. He regularly stole expensive [[sports car]]s for use by the gang and was arrested driving an [[Iso Rivolta IR 300]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/topicalbumbackground/490/klaus_stern_terrorist_ohne_fuehrerschein.html|date = October 2007|author=Klaus Stern|author-link=Klaus Stern|title=Terrorist ohne Führerschein| publisher=einestages on [[Spiegel Online]]}}</ref>

On 1 June 1972, Baader and fellow RAF members [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] and [[Holger Meins]] were apprehended after a lengthy [[shootout]] in Frankfurt.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Danchev |first1=Alex |title=On Art and War and Terror |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7486-4138-3 |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref>