Word: meinhoff
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...felt towards their elders. Two years later, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof founded the Red Army Faction, a left-wing terrorist group. In a 1971 survey, a quarter of West Germans under 30 professed to "a certain sympathy" for the terrorists. (Read: "Germany's Islamic Terrorists: Echoes of Baader-Meinhoff...
...German secret police? The question is all the more sensitive since that movement spawned the Red Army Faction, postwar Europe's most deadly terrorist organization, which killed at least 34 people in a series of flamboyant attacks stretching into the 1980s. (Read "Germany's Islamic Terrorists: Echoes of Baader-Meinhoff...
...Young men like Breininger are dangerous for what they can do, of course. But they are also dangerous for what they represent: the first generation of German terrorists since the Baader-Meinhoff gang formed the left-wing Red Army Faction (RAF) in the 1970s...
...Investigators, academics and even some of those who knew members of Baader-Meinhoff in the 1970s, see striking similarities between the earlier radical leftists and Germany's homegrown Islamists today...