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- On December 21, 1975, six terrorists from the Revolutionary Cells, led by Carlos 'The Jackal' forced their way into the conference room of the OPEC headquarters in Vienna and took seventy ministers hostage. A gun battle with the police ensued, and three people were killed. One terrorist was seriously wounded. The terrorists managed to escape to Algiers with a few hostages and the wounded man. There the hostages were released. The wounded terrorist was Hans-Joachim Klein. At the moment that Klein arrived in Algiers, he decided to quit terrorism. The only question was how. Quitting would be seen as treason, and Carlos was known for his relentless position about this. Klein escaped with the help of an old comrade from the student movement. This comrade was Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and he would continue to help him in subsequent years, until Klein's arrest in 1998. When Klein broke away from terrorism, he took refuge in the countryside of Normandy and continued to hide there for many years. At that time, he posed as a journalist for the German magazine 'Der Spiegel.' The villagers in his area knew who Klein really was, but they let his terrorist past rest. He wrote a book in which he broke with his terrorist past. Klein blamed himself for realizing too late what terrorism was about. He now sees that he was used by Middle East organizations. While Klein thought the OPEC action was in support of the Palestinian cause; in reality it turned out to be a way for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to get a better grip on OPEC. Klein believed in the idealism of terrorism, but there proved to be great political powers at work that had their own agenda.In 1998, Klein let himself be arrested in Normandy. He was fed up with living underground. For five years, Klein didn't come out of his cell; he sat in heavily protected prisons in Stuttgart and Frankfurt, where murderers and pedophiles were imprisoned. Klein read the complete Marcel Proust epic, 'A la rec
- The Final Journey follows the rail lines of the Nazi Controled Deutsche Reichsbahn system that delivered millions of people from every corner of Europe to the door-step of the infamous Concentration Camps. By integrating a special collection of rare photographs and crystal clear archival film, the viewer is taken on a then and now journey to each of the former Nazi camps of Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwld, Flossenbuerg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrueck, Neuengamme, Stutthof and Bergen-Belsen where millions suffered and died.
- Jonathan Meades explores the architecture of Nazi Germany, from its holiday camps to its concentration camps.
- Neus Català is a Ravensbrück's Nazi concentration camp survivor.
- To provide more food rations for the forced labourers in concentration camps, would have cost the SS additional money. So Himmler offered sex as incentive to the prisoners, because it was free of charge.