Rotee Armee Fraktion or RAF was formed in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, and Ulrike Meinhof. This group was formed as an idea of new youth identity. After WW2 and emerging baby boomers this group had its own views on how the government should be formed. They did not like the "fascist state" and rebelled against it. They thought of their government as being under charge by nazism. They were standing up to this and defending what their parents did not do. They led many operations of terrorism from kidnapping, arson, bombings to murder. There were 3 generations of RAF. The first generation was that of Baader and the others and they were the most prominent group and Germany's post WW2 most violent group. The second generation was from mid 1970's after other former members of a group joined, and the third generation which existed in the 1980's and 1990's. In 1998 an eight page letter was written declaring the group has dissolved.
Some similarities of RAF to today's terrorist groups are~
They will fight for a change.
They will cause destruction and violence.
They will fight against people in their own country.
I do believe however that the RAF group had more of a political reason behind the attacks and strongly believed that it wasn't right and they declared that and wanted change, but with today's terrorism I feel that the groups are targeting other people strictly for their own satisfaction of hurting another country physically and personal emotion whereas there is no real cause or idea behind it.
work cited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
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