At the time of her arrest [on June 7, 1972], Gudrun Ensslin had a key in her bag which fitted the lock of one of the conspirators' apartments, in the Seidenstrasse in Stuttgart.

On 7 August 1972, police officers searchd this hideout. A detective superintendent of the Stuttgart regional Criminal Investigation Office wrote a report:

'Re: hunt for violent anarchist criminals. Subject: conspirators' apartment at 71 Seidenstrasse.

'Attached: 22 Mickey Mouse comic books.

'The attached Mickey Mouse comic books were found in the above-mentioned apartment. There are good grounds for suspecting that these Mickey Mouse books were read by the gang member Andreas Baader.'