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'Events that shook Germany to its core'

Crime scene with the covered corpses of federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver on April 7, 1977

The trial opens today of a former member of the Red Army Faction in Germany over the murder of the country's most senior prosecutor in 1977.

Correspondent Stephen Evans describes the events which shook Germany's political system to its foundations.

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