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Rote Armee Fraktion — vesttysk venstreekstrem terrororganisation grundlagt i 1970 og opløst i 1998. Ansvarlig for nogle af efterkrigstidens mest alvorlige politiske forbrydelser i Tyskland.
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Detlev Karsten Rohwedder — The RAF Assassination in Düsseldorf, 1991
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.
RAF — Red Army Faction
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.
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