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=== Study of brain === Following their apparent suicides, the [[German government]] had the [[human brain|brains]] of Baader, Meinhof, Ensslin and Raspe removed for study at the Neurological Research Institute at the [[University of Tübingen]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hooper |first1=John |title=The dead guerrillas, the missing brains and the experiment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/nov/18/germany.science |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=18 November 2002 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Broomby |first1=Rob |title=Red Army Faction brains 'disappeared' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2484745.stm |access-date=29 May 2022 |work=BBC |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=16 November 2002}}</ref> Meinhof's brain contained scar tissue, the result of surgery to remove a benign tumor in 1962, that could have affected her behavior.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2455647.stm | work=BBC News | title=Meinhof brain study yields clues | date=12 November 2002 | access-date=23 April 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100420210300/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2455647.stm| archive-date= 20 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> The results of the study of the others' brains are not known. Aside from the removal of his brain, a [[death mask]] was made of Baader. The brains of all but Meinhof have apparently been lost and cannot be accounted for by German authorities.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2484745.stm | work=BBC News | title=Red Army Faction brains 'disappeared' | date=16 November 2002 | access-date=23 April 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100420200416/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2484745.stm| archive-date= 20 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
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