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Baader Meinhof Gang

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Noun1.Baader Meinhof Gang - a radical left-wing revolutionary terrorist group active in Germany from 1968 until 1977
act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990


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The film's makers glamorise the Baader Meinhof Gang (properly called the Red Army Faction, or RAF, with its logo a sub-machine-gun superimposed on a red star) and its politics in three ways.
He will walk free in January after serving 26 years in prison for a spate of murders, kidnappings and hijackings during the bloody ''German Autumn'' of the late 1970s, when the RAF - also known as the Baader Meinhof gang - terrorised West Germany.
The bloody legacy of the Baader Meinhof Gang which caused mayhem across West Germany with its politically-motivated assassinations, bombings and kidnappings is to be portrayed on cinema screens this week in a new film which claims to debunk the myth of 1970s terrorist chic.
 
 
 
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