Sartre la Stammheim
Sartre in Stammheim

Summary/Abstract: The historian and political scientist Kraushaar offers a thorough analysis of the circumstances in which J. P. Sartre visited the Stammheim prison where the leaders of the terrorist organization “The Red army Faction” were sentenced to life detention. This ostentatious visit is still considered an act of bravado, hard to accept and to understand by the public opinion and scholars alike. The fact that it proved to be more a stratagem on the part of the terrorists to protest against their imprisonment, by luring a renown writer – known for his leftist sympathies – to side with their cause and condition, and that they took advantage of his old age and bad health do not mitigate the opinion of many analysts that the writer’s gesture was a declaration of solidarity with the terrorists’ cause.

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