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@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ The Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, RAF), commonly known as the Baader-Me
The RAF's origins lay in the student protest movements of the late 1960s and the radicalization of a faction that concluded electoral and protest politics were insufficient. Baader, Meinhof, and Ensslin carried out their first arson attacks against Frankfurt department stores in 1968. After Baader's arrest and escape from custody in 1970 - an escape in which Meinhof, then a prominent left-wing journalist, participated - the group formally constituted itself. Meinhof authored the RAF's founding manifesto.[^1]
The group trained in [[Jordan]] with Palestinian fedayeen organizations in 1970 before returning to [[West Germany]] to begin operations. Its first major campaign in May 1972 involved coordinated bombings against U.S. Army headquarters in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, the Hamburg police headquarters, and the Springer newspaper building in Hamburg, resulting in several deaths and dozens of injuries.[^1]
The group trained in [[Jordan]] with Palestinian fedayeen organizations in 1970 before returning to West Germany to begin operations. Its first major campaign in May 1972 involved coordinated bombings against U.S. Army headquarters in Frankfurt and Heidelberg, the Hamburg police headquarters, and the Springer newspaper building in Hamburg, resulting in several deaths and dozens of injuries.[^1]
### The 1977 German Autumn
The most significant RAF operations occurred in the autumn of 1977, in what German media called the "German Autumn" (Deutscher Herbst). On September 5, 1977, RAF members kidnapped Hanns Martin Schleyer, president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations and a former SS officer, killing his four bodyguards and driver in the ambush. On October 13, a Palestinian commando - coordinating with the RAF - hijacked [[Lufthansa]] Flight 181 from Mallorca, eventually diverting it to Mogadishu, [[Somalia]].
The [[West Germany|West German]] government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to release imprisoned RAF members in response to both the Schleyer kidnapping and the hijacking. The Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (GSG 9), the federal counterterrorism unit created following the [[Munich Olympic Massacre|1972 Munich Olympics]] failure, stormed the hijacked aircraft at Mogadishu on October 18, 1977, killing three of four hijackers and freeing all hostages. Hours after the rescue, Baader, Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe were found dead in their Stammheim Prison cells - officially ruled suicides, though the precise circumstances remained contested. Schleyer was subsequently murdered by his RAF captors.[^1]
The West German government under Chancellor [[Helmut Schmidt]] refused to release imprisoned RAF members in response to both the Schleyer kidnapping and the hijacking. The [[GSG 9|Grenzschutzgruppe 9]] (GSG 9), the federal counterterrorism unit created following the [[Munich Olympic Massacre|1972 Munich Olympics]] failure, stormed the hijacked aircraft at Mogadishu on October 18, 1977, killing three of four hijackers and freeing all hostages. Hours after the rescue, Baader, Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe were found dead in their Stammheim Prison cells - officially ruled suicides, though the precise circumstances remained contested. Schleyer was subsequently murdered by his RAF captors.[^1]
### Second and Third Generation