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+Contemporary Crises 4 (1980) 341-348 341
+Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Amsterdam - Printed in The Netherlands
+THE CRIME OF KLAUS CROISSANT
+SEBASTIAN SCHEERER
+Klaus who?
+To most people in West Germany, the 1931-born liberal lawyer is the
+devil in disguise. In their opinion, he and his colleagues, notably Lang,
+Newerla, Groenewold and Str~Sbele were busy smuggling escape and attack
+plans from one prisoner's cell to the other or from the incarcerated heads
+of the Red Army Faction (RAF), popularly known as the Baader-Meinhof
+gang, to still fugitive soldiers of the urban guerilla while pretending to mind
+their own business as lawyers of the defense in Germany's most exciting
+post-war conspiracy trial. Popular emotions were running high: the Baader-
+Meinhofs, it must be known, had placed a bomb in the headquarters of
+the Fifth U.S.Army command in Frankfurt, killing three U.S. citizens in an
+attempt to protest the American Vietnam policy and Germany's tacit
+support of the logistic operations needed to carry through President Nixon's
+bombing warfare in Indochina. But other groups had, long after Baader and
+Meinhof, continued the armed struggle: they had kidnapped a politician and
+shot a banker, an industrialist and a judge, also killing policemen and bodyguards.
+A few more bombing and bomb scares had officially been attributed
+to "the terrorists".
+Croissant, in the eyes of the masses, in collaboration with his colleagues
+masterminded the continuing guerilla operations after Baader and Meinhof
+had been arrested. Others defined him not as the Godfather but as the
+"mailman" for arsonists and police murderers [ 1]. He had "subordinated
+himself to the plans and goals of the conspiracy as one of its members"
+[2]. Notwithstanding this ambiguity in his public image - Godfather or
+humble servant of terrorists - Croissant and his colleagues had to be stopped
+at all costs. It was so easy and yet so difficult.
+Croissant and his colleagues had hardly been accepted by the court as
+defense lawyers for the five accused, when they were, half a year later,
+in 1975, excluded. It took only two weeks to pass a law providing for the
+possibility of the exclusion of lawyers. Information about the defense
+strategy was collected by periodical cell raids and continuous marl-inspection
+by the Secret Service. "We're not going to curb the legitimate rights
+of the defense", a member of Parliament said in the debate preceding this
+law. "We're solely aiming at lawyers pursuing their revolutionary battle
+Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitt~'t, Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany.
+-1100[80/0000-0000]$ 02.25 © 1980 Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
 *[https://socialhistoryportal.org/sites/default/files/raf/0019760716_01_2.pdf Dokumente zur Verhaftung 1976]