West German far-left terrorist organization (officially the Red Army Faction) founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof — which carried out bank robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations of German industrial and political figures in the 1970s.
Represents the European equivalent of the Weather Underground — far-left terrorism drawing on Marxist-Leninist ideology — and provides the archetypal case study of how ideologically motivated terrorism emerges from radical student politics.
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