In separate prisons , the RAF inmates stage a hunger strike which results in Meins ' death . The German student movement considers this to be murder . The authorities then move Baader , Ensslin , Meinhof , and Jan-Carl Raspe to Stammheim Prison , where they work on their defense for their trial and smuggle orders outside . In 1975 , a group of younger RAF recruits seize the West German embassy in Stockholm . The siege ends with a series of explosions , which kill several RAF members and injure the hostages . RAF member Siegfried Hausner survives the blast but is critically wounded , extradited to West Germany and dies in a prison hospital . The imprisoned RAF members are appalled by the poor execution of their orders for the Stockholm operation . Meanwhile , Herold 's assistant asks why people who have never met Baader are willing to take orders from him . Herold replies , " A myth . " Meinhof , suffering from depression and remorse over the deaths caused by their bombings , is subjected to sadistic emotional abuse by Baader and Ensslin , who call her a traitor and " a knife in the RAF 's back " . In response , Meinhof hangs herself in her cell . The imprisoned RAF members accuse West Germany 's Government of murdering her during their trial and are widely believed . Upon completing her sentence Brigitte Mohnhaupt takes over command of the RAF outside . She informs Boock that Baader has forbidden any more attacks on " the people " and enlists his help smuggling weapons into Stammheim . In retaliation for the " murders " of Meins , Hausner , and Meinhof , the RAF assassinates West Germany 's Attorney General , Siegfried Buback . Mohnhaupt , Christian Klar , and Susanne Albrecht , also attempt to kidnap Dresdner Bank President Jürgen Ponto , who fights back and is shot dead . Knowing that the imprisoned RAF members have ordered both murders , the West German Government returns them to solitary confinement . Even so , Ensslin and Baader obtain two way radios and continue smuggling orders outside
seize the West German embassy in Stockholm
West German Embassy siege
The Baader Meinhof Complex