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Red Army Faction
The radicalized were, like many in the New Left, influenced by:* Sociological developments, pressure within the educational system in and outside Europe and the U.S...
Timeline of Events
1970
5.14.1970
The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.thumb, carrying the Skylab space station.]]
1972
6.16.1972
Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
1977
4.7.1977
German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
4.28.1977
The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
9.5.1977
Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
10.13.1977
Four Palestinians hijack ''Lufthansa Flight 181'' to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
10.18.1977
German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is murdered and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide.
1989
11.30.1989
Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1998
4.20.1998
German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.