I found this website to be most amazing. It tells the whole shocking story about this Marxist terror organization which shook all of Germany in the 1970s.

http://www.baader-meinhof.com/images/MunichBKABombForHomePage

http://www.baader-meinhof.com/index.htm

During the years of terror in West Germany, 1968-1977, close to a hundred Germans became active left-wing terrorists, joining one of three terrorist groups: the Red Army Faction (RAF), Movement 2 June, and the Revolutionary Cells (RZ). Of the three, the Red Army Faction was the most well-known (often called "The Baader-Meinhof Gang"), though the Movement 2 June as well as the Revolutionary Cells probably committed as many terrorist acts. A precursor group, Tupamaros West Berlin, existed for only a year or so, before many of it's members formed the Movement 2 June. Other groups, such as the Ruhr Red Army, and Tupamaros Munich, predated the Baader-Meinhof Gang, but their activities were quite limited and don't warrant inclusion in this discussion. Many former members of a group of psychiatric patients called the Socialist Patient's Collective (SPK) joined up with the Red Army Faction in the mid-1970s, revitalizing that group.

That did not happen in my lifetime. But from what older person tell here it was pretty bad. In front of friendshouse there was a carbombing on a important person from the industry.

That did not happen in my lifetime. But from what older person tell here it was pretty bad. In front of friendshouse there was a carbombing on a important person from the industry.
I do remember hearing about Hans Martin Schlayer being murdered.

The RAF began as a group of young people who opposed police brutality. But they turned increasingly radical.

From what I read about them they were Marxist-Leninist and had some support from the East German Government. For that reason I don't really agree with anything they did. What is worse, the acts of terror that they committed alienated any potential support they would have had.

I do not know if Meinhoff and her followers actually killed themselves or if they were murdered by the West German police but it all seemed suspicious that they all died at once while in prison.

The RAF differed from, for example, Italy's Brigada Rossa because the latter was a genuine working class organization which actually did exact change in Italy. In fact, italian employers were quite scared of the Brigada. Though it also is true that the Red Brigade ended up committing political assasinations as well.