Still, you describe a bi-partisan and actually respectable political handling at the time.

Which it was. Mind you, there were also some more questionable things going on - such as occasional listening devices for lawyer/client conversations, listening devices in cells, though those in turn make you wonders, since they used them on Baader, Ensslin etc. and their attorneys, why on earth didn't they manage to capture any conversations where terrorist activities were going on? Anyway. When the lawyers found out about the devices, that more or less collapsed the entire trial. All of which took part before events in this tv two parter, so it's not part of the action.

I always thought it was one of those ironies of fate that Gudrun Ensslin's lawyer, Otto Schily, became our minister of the interior in this decade and is all for listening in on terrorists now...

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum has a point about the mass hysteria of the average Bildzeitungsleser - different from outrage about the murders. There were a lot of letters telling them to kill themselves, sometimes complete with garotte, letters declaring them worse than pedophiles etc.

Klein's memoirs: no, I haven't read them.

Working class: which Schleyer's chauffeur and his bodyguards were as well, and they got gunned down without hesitation. (Something Schmidt points out.)