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noticing. Chief Federal Prosecutor VON STAHL told the members of the Bundestag that the
attack had been planned a week earlier and that the assassins had already installed almost
all parts of the later bomb trap, including the cable subsequently identified as the lead to the
fuse mechanism.
On the day of the attack the assassins installed a photoelectric barrier and positioned the
bomb mounted on a bicycle so that Herrhausen’s car had to pass immediately by it. All
these preparations happened at a location that had been patrolled by the police just half an
hour before without them noticing anything untoward.
This is remarkable, because a janitor of the swimming baths nearby had seen – about half
an hour before the attack – some young men who acted conspicuously. In addition the trap
would only work if Herrhausen’s car would pass first through the photoelectric barrier, not
preceded by another car.
The former president of the Bundeverfassungsschutz (the German secret service), DR.
RICHARD MEIER, told the Bundestag (the German parliament) one week after the attack,
that the car normally leading Herrhausen’s three-car convoy had been called off. ( Had
somebody from the RAF telephoned and said that the first car was hindering the
assassination?)
Another peculiarity thought out by the assassins which points to a lot of experience in
handling military explosives in the fact that the bomb was fashioned as a hollow charge.
This had the effect of the shock wave being directional instead of uniformly extending all
around.
The building of this bomb as well as the knowledge of the weak points of the
armored Mercedes car with the opening side windows about which only a small circle of
security specialists who had seen the pertinent test results knew: all this cannot by any
stretch of the imagination be blamed on the RAF terrorists or any other beginners.
The security service could not find any useful leads at the site of the attack what would
enable them to point to any group of perpetrators. A piece of paper with a five-pointed star,
a
picture of a Heckler & Koch submachine gun with RAF stenciled on and the words
“Kommando Wolfgang Beer” had been left behind which, however, did not lead anywhere.
As with all the other attacks apparently made by an RAF since the arrest of the so-called
second RAF generation around Christian Klar and the now well-known disappearing of part
of the terrorists in the former GDR since 1984, there was and is not a single proof of an
actually existing leftist terrorist group that can legitimately be called RAF.
There are no fingerprints, no saliva on cigarette stubs, no hair nor any other useful leads to
the perpetrators who for nine years now have been bombing, shooting and recently expertly
blew up a prison.
The letter claiming responsibility in the Herrhausen case was so flimsy
that the former Federal Minister of the Interior SCHAUBLE criticized that the contents of the
letter were curiously at odds with the severity and technical perfection of the assassination.
There is a desperate lack of proofs or even hints and clues of a terrorist organization RAF,
still the security service of Germany is holding on to the theory of an RAF committing these
crimes.
On July 1, 1992 the authors of a German TV report in Brennpunkt (focus) titled The End of
the RAF Legend showed the results of their research.
They postulated that the so-called
third generation RAF that was officially blamed for these attacks existed only as a legend
that was no longer tenable.
The Brennpunkt authors Wolfgang Landgraeber, Ekkehard
Sieker and Gerhard Wisnewski elaborated on their thesis in their book about the RAF
Phantom (Knaur Verlag).
Their main arguments:
Contrary to the first (Meinhof, Baader, Enslin) and the second (Susanne Albrecht, Christian
Klar) RAF generations the so-called third generation leaves “not even a hint of a clue” at the
scene of the crime.
The persons counted among the third generation (e.g. Christian Seidler) all disappeared
without a trace in the mid-Eighties without any sign of life ever emerging since.
