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
Baader-Meinhof Gang
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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(15) German biopic of 60s Baader Meinhof gang radicals Bernward Vesper and Gudrun Ensslin, their relationship and different approaches to world change.
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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.
THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX, (rated MA+, with English subtitles)
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.
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