Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and accused of the ...

In the summer of 1970, a group of West German radical activists flew from Berlin to the Middle East.

It’s two decades after the end of World War II, and West Germany is in turmoil. As elsewhere, charges of American imperialism are a flashpoint for student protests: Between the Vietnam War, America’s ...

A former member of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang has been jailed for a string of armed robberies after decades on the run. Daniela Klette, 67, once described as Germany's most-wanted woman, was ...

At age 13, performance artist Erin Cosgrove had her cool-radar tripped by a photo of Joe Strummer wearing a T-shirt printed with a Kalashnikov and the letters RAF. She subsequently learned—”because ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. German police have linked a botched armed robbery from 2015 with three ...

Part thriller, part social history, this tense 2008 drama traces the rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang, a violent communist terror group whose track record of ...

Bernd Eichinger, who wrote and produced Downfall, is the force behind the film version of another German trauma,The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, ...

Three decades after the "German autumn"—the climax of a wave of bomb attacks and kidnappings by the Red Army Faction (RAF)—producer and writer Bernd Eichinger (Downfall, Perfume: The Story of a ...

Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army, and righteous outlaws of ...