In 1977, left-wing terrorism by the Red Army Faction reached an unprecedented dimension in the Federal Republic of Germany. With the murders of Dresdner Bank CEO Jürgen Ponto, Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, and Employers' President Hanns Martin Schleyer, as well as the hijacking of the passenger plane "Landshut," a second generation of the RAF, determined to use extreme brutality, emerged. At the same time, the first generation marked a shocking conclusion for the republic with the suicides of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stammheim. Against the backdrop of the emergence of the terrorist organization and looking at the subsequent attacks until its self-dissolution, Butz Peters recounts the dramatic events of the pivotal year 1977. The gripping story that Butz Peters tells in this book does not end in 1977 but extends into our present time.