Deborah Cole

And many of them spoke about her quite fondly.

I mean, they said that she was, you know, a bit reserved and taciturn.

You know, there were these kind of touching stories of her tutoring kids in the neighborhood whose German might not have been so strong.

So, you know, by many accounts, she was a quite good neighbor.

I mean, I think they were able to evade police as long as they did, was that they kept their circle of people who were informed of who they were very, very small.

They didn't trust a lot of people.

So even, you know, her direct neighbors didn't have any indication that she was Germany's most wanted woman.

It was huge news for people in Berlin and in Germany.

I mean, keep in mind, you know, she was Germany's most wanted woman for the better part of three decades.

And she was probably the most recognizable face of this, you know, third generation of the Red Army faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang.

And so when she was captured after three decades on the run, it raised a lot of questions about, you know, the competence of the authorities, the fact that she was living in central Berlin and they didn't manage to find her.

And it also revived a lot of painful and quite divisive feelings in German society about the legacy of the RAF.

So, I mean, Daniela Kletta managed to hide in plain sight for decades.

And she lived in an apartment in Kreuzberg, in that sort of bohemian part of the capital, right near where the death strip of the Berlin Wall had been.

And in this apartment, you know, a lot of times when people talk about the RAF, they talk about this sort of cinematic quality.

And it really was like out of a Cold War thriller.

The police burst into our apartment and they find everything that you would need for decades living underground in the heart of the German capital.

So they found more than 240,000 euros in cash.

They found a stash of gold.

They found wigs and other disguises that presumably had been used during the armed robberies, but possibly in other circumstances when she was out in public.