Baader–Meinhof gang

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Popular 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.

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