The Red Army Faction

[CubanFox]

The Red Army Faction, or in German, Rote Armee Fraktion, but better known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, was an extreme left wing combat group in the '70s.

One of our esteemed comrades has their acronym as part of his username.

But what did they want? West Germany to be absorbed into the East? A whole new Marxist West Germany?

Surely they must have had some sort of aim beyond blowing things apart.

[Sabocat]

From everything I have read, they were particularly interested in ridding Germany of the old Nazi's that had migrated to banking positions, industry leaders, politicians, etc., while trying to also forment a popular Stalinist Communist movement.