Title
Shopping mall fire in Frankfurt
Caption
Emergency task forces of police and fire brigade inspect the burnt out fourth storey of "Kaufhof" in Frankfurt on the 3rd of April in 1968. Two shopping malls in Frankfurt were set on fire that night. Explosive cartridges and a phone call to the editorial department of the dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur confessing the attack, underline the possibility of politically motivated attack. Among the culprits are the later members of the RAF Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. The attack and its consequences is regardes as the root of the RAF terror.
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Date
Apr 03, 1968
Credit line
Photo12/dpa-pa
Reference
DPA13A03_046
License type
Rights managed
Available size
29,5Mb (1,6Mb) / 12,4in x 9,2in / 3722 x 2773 (300dpi)