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The section about her life is a (good) summary of Inge Viett's autobiography "Nie war ich furchtloser". However, the book contains few details about her involvement in actual terror activity, possibly due to the fact that the statute of limitations for these acts had not expired by the time it was written. Consequently, the section does not accurately reflect her involvement in illegal activities.
I did try to check the normative reference for everything RAF-related, namely "Toedlicher Irrtum, die Geschichte der RAF" by Butz Peters. It has little to say about Inge Viett, possibly due to the fact that Viett only joined the RAF in 1980 and left for the GDR in 1982. During this time, the RAF exploded a car bomb in Ramstein and tried to assassinate the american supreme commander of NATO. Viett was not among those ultimately convicted of these acts, but it seems at least plausible that she was involved in their planning and/or execution. Indeed, for many terror acts of the RAF, it has never been conclusively determined who all was involved and in which role.
Of course, there is also the possibility that Viett was involved in acts perpetrated by her previous group, the Bewegung 2. Juni, before she joined the RAF. I do not have reference material for that organization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.60.76.124 (talk) 22:57, 25 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
You have to follow the available sources. But yes, other perspectives should be available ... somewhere, and please feel free to add stuff where you can find appropriate sources. (And yes, I did already look, but not recently.)
On some of your own comments directly above, it is self evidently not sufficient simply to suspect, as you (or I) may that Inge Viett may have been involved in planning and / or implementation of other acts. But if a well regarded journalist were to contribute such an opinion as part of a serious well-researched not sensationalist study, then I don't see why one couldn't add mention of it in this wiki-entry. My general sense of the mood in Germany right now is that people would rather take the RAF & 2 June thing as read, and concentrate their investigatory efforts elsewhere. No doubt there will be future generations of PhD students (provided there will be a future) able and willing to dig deep and find significant new sources, but maybe significant new sources may only surface after you and I are dead! Regards Charles01 (talk) 16:14, 30 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
