Red Army Faction
type: Thing
different from: Royal Air Force
different from: Red Army Faction (Japan)
label: Rote Armee Fraktion
label: 红军派 @zh
label: جماعة الجيش الأحمر @ar
label: Fracció de l'Exèrcit Roig @ca
label: ドイツ赤軍 @ja
label: Fração do Exército Vermelho @pt
label: Φράξια Κόκκινος Στρατός @el
label: 적군파 (독일) @ko
label: Armada Gorriaren Frakzioa @eu
label: Faksi Pasukan Merah @in
label: Фракция Красной армии @ru
label: Fracción del Ejército Rojo @es
label: Röda armé-fraktionen @sv
label: Фракція Червоної Армії @uk
label: Frakce Rudé armády @cs
label: Frakcja Czerwonej Armii @pl
label: Fraction armée rouge @fr
subject: Category:Crimes against police officers in Germany
subject: Category:Maoist organisations in Germany
subject: Category:Außerparlamentarische Opposition
subject: Category:Anti-imperialist organizations
subject: Category:Organizations disestablished in 1998
subject: Category:Anti-fascist organisations in Germany
subject: Category:Third-Worldism
subject: Category:1998 disestablishments in Germany
subject: Category:Red Army Faction
subject: Category:Organizations established in 1970
subject: Category:Defunct communist militant groups
subject: Category:Terrorism in Germany
subject: Category:Left-wing militant groups in Germany
subject: Category:1970 establishments in West Germany
subject: Category:Communist terrorism
subject: Category:Defunct organizations designated as terrorist in Europe
hypernym: Group
quote: 1970.0
quote: "The Red Army Faction's Urban Guerrilla Concept is not based on an optimistic view of the prevailing circumstances in the Federal Republic and West Berlin."
quote: "World War II was only twenty years earlier. Those in charge of the police, the schools, the governmentthey were the same people who'd been in charge under Nazism. The chancellor, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, had been a Nazi. People started discussing this only in the 60s. We were the first generation since the war, and we were asking our parents questions. Due to the Nazi past, everything bad was compared to the Third Reich. If you heard about police brutality, that was said to be just like the SS. The moment you see your own country as the continuation of a fascist state, you give yourself permission to do almost anything against it. You see your action as the resistance that your parents did not put up."
native name lang: de
width: 20.0
author: – The Urban Guerrilla Concept written by RAF co-founder Ulrike Meinhof
author: – Stefan Aust, author of
author: – Stefan Aust, author of Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
allies: Action Directe
allies: Brigate Rosse
ideology: Marxism–Leninism
ideology: Maoism
ideology: Anti-fascism
ideology: Revolutionary socialism
ideology: Communism
ideology: Anti-imperialism
caption: Later design of the RAF's insignia showing a red star and a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun
description: organização terrorista alemã @pt
description: German far-left terrorist organisation
description: szélsőbaloldali terrorszervezet Nyugat-Németországban (1968-1998) @hu
description: левая вооружённая организация из Западной Германии @ru
description: tổ chức chiến binh hiếu chiến theo xu hướng cực tả của Tây Đức @vi
description: ehemalige linksextremistische terroristische Vereinigung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland @de
description: německá teroristická organizace @cs
description: germana terorisma organizaĵo @eo
description: Duitse activistengroep (1970–1998) @nl
description: terroriste groep in Wes-Duitsland @af
description: 德国左翼政治团体 @zh
description: กลุ่มติดอาวุธในเยอรมนีตะวันตก @th
description: organització armada d'extrema esquerra alemanya @ca
description: Γερμανική τρομοκρατική οργάνωση @el
description: nekdanja levičaraka teroristična organizacija v Zvezni republiki Nemčiji @sl
description: niemiecka skrajnie lewicowa organizacja terrorystyczna @pl
description: tysk vänsterextrem terroristorganisation @sv
description: gruppo terroristico tedesco di matrice marxista-leninista @it
description: organización extinta de liberación política alemana @es
description: organisation communiste révolutionnaire active en Allemagne de l'Ouest de 1970 à 1998 @fr
description: Länsi-Saksassa vaikuttanut äärivasemmistolainen terroristiryhmä @fi
description: aşırı solcu örgüt @tr
position: Far-left
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