# Who Remembers The Red Army Faction? (Baader- Meinhof Gang) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335 "2012-06-16T12:52:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/21 "2012-06-18T19:17:04Z")
Having been born in Germany in 1968, the kidnapping of [Peter Lorenz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorenz) is the earliest political event I can remember having followed in the news. And even as a nine year old in 1977, I had an awareness of the strangely distressed mood in the country, the so-called [“leaden times”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Bleierne_Zeit) of the [German Autumn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Autumn). A couple from my tiny podunk town were passengers in the [Landshut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_181). ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/22 "2024-02-28T05:21:57Z")
Back to life!!! > **[Daniela Klette: Alleged Red Army Faction member held after 30 years](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68415892)** > > Daniela Klette, 65, was arrested in Berlin and faces accusations of attempted murder and robbery. # Daniela Klette: Alleged Red Army Faction member held after 30 years " Ms Klette is renowned for allegedly being part of the far-left armed group which terrorised Germany for decades. She is accused of attempted murder and a string of serious robberies. The second person to be arrested, a man who appears to be in the same age range as Ms Klette’s robbery accomplices, was carrying fake identification. Police have not yet determined his identity." ---
**Author:** ![ColdBrew50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@ColdBrew50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColdBrew50)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/23 "2024-02-28T06:42:18Z")
Sure, I know about their existence and sort of their main M.O. and thrust of their “arguments.” Beyond that, no, not much. And, being a yanqui, I can’t say they really affected me too much personally. Maybe it’s possible some simulacrum of them or a similar group inspired some elements of the movie _Black Sunday_ with Robert Shaw, Marthe Keller, and Bruce Dern, but I’m not prepared to commit to that at all…just an idea popped into head right now. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/24 "2024-02-29T04:48:06Z")
I was stationed in Germany a few years after the Rhein-Main bombing. The RAF used one of their female members to pick up a young soldier in a bar and they murdered him. They used his ID to gain access to the Air Force base. The bar they got the soldier from was one of my hangouts. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/25 "2024-03-20T12:35:25Z")
Ah, nostalgia! _Horst and Ulrike would spray Bullets at the bourgeoisie Chairman Mao said it was all OK Those were the daaays!_ ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/26 "2024-03-20T13:05:59Z")
My wife was an Army brat whose family were stationed in Heidelberg in the 1980s. It would be fair to say that the BMG were a concern at the time. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/27 "2025-03-25T20:12:58Z")
> **[Former Baader-Meinhof militant goes on trial after decades on the run](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/former-baader-meinhof-militant-daniela-klette-trial-after-decades-on-run)** > > Daniela Klette, the last female member at large of the 70s terror network, had been living quietly in Berlin ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/28 "2025-03-25T21:00:08Z")
I first heard of them recently, but it turns out that people talk about them all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335/29 "2025-03-25T21:16:43Z")
Sure, I remember them. I was 23 in 1970. Didn’t give them much attention, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-remembers-the-red-army-faction-baader-meinhof-gang/625335.md?page=1)