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German terrorist Andreas Baader got one of his lawyers pregnant while he was in prison, a former prison guard says in a book published this week. Former guard Horst Bubeck says he and other wardens allowed Baader to have sex with the lawyer, whom Bubeck won’t name, during regular visits. Baader, the leader of the leftist Baader-Meinhof gang, which set fires and planted bombs and robbed banks during the ’60s and ’70s, killed himself in prison in 1977. He has long been seen as a sex symbol and political icon, a kind of German Che Guevara, and his mystique continues to fuel books and documentaries. The latest is this week’s biography of his prison guard.
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