Baader-Meinhof Gang

British  

/ ˈbaːdər ˈmainhoːf /

noun

1. Also known as: Red Army Faction.  a group of left-wing West German terrorists, active in the 1970s, who were dedicated to the violent overthrow of capitalist society

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Etymology

Origin of Baader-Meinhof Gang

C20: named after its leading members, Andreas Baader (1943–77) and Ulrike Meinhof (1934-76)

Example Sentences

At a prison in Karlsruhe, he said, a former member of the Baader-Meinhof Gang introduced him to the works of Brecht, Sartre and Hegel.

From The Guardian

I mean, forced to choose between hijacking planes with the Baader-Meinhof Gang and eating chicken wings with Tilda Swinton, what would you do?

From Los Angeles Times

Take the Baader-Meinhof Gang in then West Germany, the far-left militant group founded in 1970 also known as the Red Army Faction.

From The Guardian

“September” follows bodies of work by the artist addressing his own family’s military involvement, the postwar rebuilding and rearming of Germany, and the terrorist activities, trial, imprisonment and deaths of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

From New York Times

He later allied himself with the Baader-Meinhof Gang of West Germany.

From New York Times