IMPORTANT GERMAN PHOTOBOOK from 2012 by Andreas Magdanz, maker of "Dienststelle Marienthal", "BND" and "Auschwitz-Birkenau", about famous German prison "Stammheim" ("RAF") - in BRANDNEW CONDITION. New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil. Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern. 2012. First edition, first printing. Hardcover (as issued). 308 x 258 mm. 230 pages. 98 black and white photos. Editor: Andreas Magdanz, Ulrike Groos. Text: Andreas Magdanz and others. Layout: Andreas Magdanz. Text: German, English. Important German photobook - in perfect condition. "Stuttgart Prison is located in the Stammheim district of Stuttgart, the northernmost district of the state capital of Baden-Württemberg. It is the largest of a total of 17 prisons with 19 branches in Baden-Württemberg. The prison became known to the general public primarily through the imprisonment of leading members of the Red Army Faction terrorist organisation. In 1975, a multi-purpose building was built next to the prison grounds especially for the trials of RAF members. As a precaution against possible escape attempts using helicopters, this hall - as well as the courtyard corridor - was extensively covered with steel nets. The construction costs for the extension totalled DM 12 million. After completion of the extensions, up to nine RAF members were temporarily housed together on the seventh floor of the prison. The prisoners had the opportunity to change every day. Contrary to the usual regulations, men and women were put together. The prisoners were allowed to operate record players, at times also television sets, and received hundreds of magazines and books. During the terrorist attacks of the German Autumn in 1977, there was an official ban on contact for several weeks, which was made possible by the Contact Restriction Act that was passed specifically for this purpose. During this phase, the prisoners were isolated. Prisoners and lawyers then claimed that isolation torture was being practised in the prison. It later became known that Jan-Carl Raspe had set up an intercom system via the former prison radio network, which prisoners could use to talk to each other unnoticed even during the contact ban. After Ulrike Meinhof's suicide by hanging on 9 May 1976, the RAF members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe died by suicide on 18 October 1977 in the "Night of Death in Stammheim". The fourth imprisoned member of the group, Irmgard Möller, survived with several stab wounds to the chest." (Wikipedia)