Germany releases one of the last Red Army Faction members
Christian Klar, one of the last members of the terrorist far-left Red Army
Faction to remain in prison, was released Friday after serving 26 years of
a life sentence, according to the Justice Ministry in the German state of
Baden-Württemberg.
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The Red Army Faction, which was also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, carried out a series of assassinations of leading German figures during the late 1970s and early 1980s, killing 34 people. It disbanded in 1998, several years after renouncing violence. It subscribed to a Marxist-Leninist ideology and sought to overthrow the capitalist West German government and to fight perceived American imperialism.