Happiness Is a Warm Gun

 

On 20 October 1992 I read in the paper that the army general Gert Bastian had shot Petra Kelly, the Green Party freedom fighter of the 1980s, while she was asleep. Shortly afterwards he shoot himself. The story hit me like a bolt of lightning, even though I was no great admirer of Kelly. It was the gunshot that fascinated me; I wanted to find out more. I was not satisfied by the wild speculatio [...]

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90 min