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Baader-Meinhof gangPopular name for the West German left-wing guerrilla group the Rote Armee Fraktion/Red Army Faction, active from 1968 against what it perceived as US imperialism. The three main founding members were Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof. The group carried out a succession of terrorist attacks in West Germany during the 1970s and claimed responsibility 1990 for the murder of Detlev Rohwedder, the government agent responsible for selling off state-owned companies of the former East German regime. A former student activist, Baader was sentenced to life imprisonment April 1977; he took his own life in October, following the failure of the Faction's hostage swap attempt at Mogadishu airport. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Black September operatives issued several demands: the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy; the release of a Black September leader held in Jordan; and the release of several members of the terrorist Baader-Meinhof gang held in Germany. Historically, university students have typically been the first to be radicalized--even in groups like the Baader-Meinhof Gang or the Red Brigades that style themselves as proletarian. For example, Journeys From Berlin/1971, 1980, consists of a fragmented interweaving of surrealistic scenes from pre-revolutionary Russia, haunting allusions to the Baader-Meinhof gang, and monologues from an individual's psychotherapy sessions (in which the patient is played by Annette Michelson). |
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