About Me
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It wasn’t just about killing Americans, and killing pigs, at least not at first. It was about attacking the illegitimate state that these pawns served. It was about scraping the bucolic soil and exposing the fascist, Nazi-tainted bedrock that the modern West German state was propped upon. It was about war on the forces of reaction. It was about Revolution.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. 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.
In the 20 years following 1977, the size of the groups shrank, and some of the groups disappeared, but their actions proved deadlier and more destructive. The final terrorist action attributed to the last of the groups, The RAF, occurred in 1993. The remaining members of the Red Army Faction announced their disbanding in late April 1998.
