Meaning

A militant left-wing extremist group officially known as the Red Army Faction that operated in West Germany from 1970 until 1998.

Examples

• The Baader-Meinhof gang became a symbol of the political turbulence in West Germany during the Cold War era.
• Historians often analyze the rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang to understand the radicalization of student movements in the 1960s.