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Uli Edel's 2008 film about the Red Army Faction became an instant cultural sensation and still shapes how Europeans remember the terrorist group.

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, chairman of the Treuhand agency, was killed by RAF terrorists at his home in Düsseldorf on 1 April 1991. The assassination was the most high-profile terrorist attack in Germany in decades. His murder was never fully solved.

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, head of Treuhandanstalt, was shot dead in 1991. A new Netflix documentary sheds fresh light on the case that has never been solved and continues to divide Germany.

Stefan Aust's 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' became the standard work on the Red Army Faction. With over 500,000 copies sold and an Oscar-nominated film adaptation, the book continues to shape our understanding of Germany's darkest political era.

The Red Army Faction (RAF) was a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany from 1970 to 1998. Founded by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and others, the group carried out kidnappings, bombings and assassinations targeting prominent business leaders and politicians. The RAF's campaign of violence, which claimed more than 30 lives, reached its peak during the autumn of 1977 — West Germany's gravest security crisis since the Second World War.