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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. “I took a pack of Tarot cards. I had found out that they were very superstitious. On arrival at a commune I would ask for their astrological birth signs and tell them mine,” Jillian Becker described her process of investigating the Marxist terrorist Baader-Meinhof Gang. Officially, the Red Army Faction, but popularly known for its two leaders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, the leftist terrorist group had carried out a string of attacks, including the killings...

[Subtitle: German media claims Horst Mahler identified as an informant for East German secret police in leaked report into 1967 shooting]He is one of the most paradoxical and notorious figures in modern German history: a social democrat lawyer turned leftwing terrorist who went to prison, turned to Maoism and then came out as a far-right nationalist.Now there is another twist: Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Red Army Faction, was also a Stasi informant.According to German newspaper reports, the revelation comes from a leaked report by state prosecutors re-investigating the shooting of a pacifist by a Berlin policeman during...

While the mainstream media is still attempting to politically crucify President Trump after his brutal press conference in which he asked if the “Alt-Left” had “any semblance of guilt” for what happened in Charlottesville, citizen journalists on Reddit’s r/the_Donald have uncovered publicly available documents on Wikileaks that refer to Antifa as a “terrorist organization” acting in West Berlin.From the Wikileaks cable: “Status awaiting possible terrorist attacks by members of the German terrorist organization Antifa in West Berlin, allegedly to be directed against radio/TV stations and offices of newspaper agencies. Some of the Antifa members had arrived in West Berlin a...

The most striking proof that the Arab anti-Israel cause is a common meeting ground for both Nazis and Communists --and that the Arabs welcomed supporters of both ilks-- lies in the friendship of Carlos, the notorious master terrorist who served the PLO, with Fran*ois Genoud, an old Nazi, one of the leading Nazis in pre-War Switzerland, later a financier who provided funds for Habash's faction of the PLO. "Carlos" (his nom de guerre) was what is called a "red diaper baby." His fabulously rich father, a Venezuelan lawyer and owner of estates, gave "Carlos" the name Ilich, Lenin's patronymic, as...

After 19 years on the run, German police arrest members of RZ group, which was involved in hijacking Air France plane with dozens of Israelis on board in 1976 Two suspected members of a German left-wing terror group which took part in some of the most notorious hostage dramas of the 1970s have surrendered to authorities after 19 years on the run. Federal state prosecutors in Karlsruhe said on Sunday that the two suspected members of the "Revolutionaere Zellen" (RZ), or Revolutionary Cells, had given themselves up in December. RZ members helped Carlos the Jackal take ministers hostage at an...

Baader-Meinhof is flashy and violent, but the glamour hides Germany's odd history of leftist anti-semitism Jean-Luc Godard said that all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun. If so, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, released on 14th November, is some movie. The Red Army Faction (RAF) was essentially a collection of women alongside the charismatic Andreas Baader. The gang so glorified violence that it used a Heckler & Koch machine gun, against the background of a red star, as a logo. Automatic weapons fire, most of it from women, is the film's central motif. Based on Stefan...

Christian Klar, now 56, will walk out of jail after 26 years on January 3 after a court ruling. The decision comes despite earlier demands that he make an apology for his murderous crimes still not being met. Klar is portrayed in 'The Baader-Meinhof Complex' which is currently playing in British cinemas. The movie documents the crimes of the urban terrorists before they took the name RAF and it has been heavily criticised in Germany, particularly by the families of victims, for portraying him and his cohorts as 'cool' and their methods justified. Klar has shown no repentance for...

BERLIN - A court paroled a one-time leader of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction Monday after 24 years in prison, amid bitter memories of the left-wing terrorist group's attacks on law enforcement and business leaders, which plunged the country into fear three decades ago. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, is to leave prison March 27, the first day she becomes eligible for release, the Stuttgart state court ruled. Her case has set off a public debate about whether it is time to show mercy to those who showed none to their victims and has made Germans relive a tense time when their...

Baader-Meinhof gang member released Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, was given five life sentences but will be released on probation next month after serving the minimum term under German law   Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who will be released next month. The terror group she belonged to is suspected of killing 34 people between 1972 and 1991     Times Online and agencies   A German court has approved the release of one of the last jailed members of the Baader-Meinhof gang, who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in multiple kidnappings and murders in the 1970s. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57,...

DEBATE OVER RELEASE OF GERMAN RAF ASSASSIN Possible Parole for Unapologetic Terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, serving five life sentences for her part in a deadly 1970s terrorism campaign, may be released on parole in March after 24 years in jail. Prosecutors say it's time to show mercy because she no longer poses a danger to society. Victims' relatives want her to show remorse first.     DPA Wanted photo of former RAF terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt. A German terrorist serving five life sentences plus 15 years for her involvement in a campaign of murder and kidnapping that traumatized West Germany in...

Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has accepted a teaching gig at Princeton. Starting this fall, he will teach international crisis diplomacy to the next generation of American elites. The Bush administration didn't much like what Joschka Fischer had to say during the Iraq war. So what will Washington say now that the former German foreign minister is trading his parliament seat for a professor's cap at Princeton? This fall, Fischer will teach the next generation of American elites about international crisis diplomacy at the university.

Germany's 'Baader-Meinhof' SanitizedBy Stephen BrownFrontPageMagazine.com | October 24, 2003 Just imagine a film about 1960s radical Kathy Boudin, in which she is portrayed as a misguided fighter for freedom and human rights. And the Weather Underground? Imagine a film depicting it as a noble entity for its opposition to racism and the Vietnam War. Well, that might not be so far off if events in Germany are anything to go by. That country's notorious Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, aka the 'Red Army Faction', is currently undergoing a surge in popularity in the Federal Republic that has elevated it almost to pop status. And...

On February 10, 2003, the government of Germany began building a new, anti-American Berlin-Moscow-Paris Axis. As one of the former Soviet bloc experts on German matters (and chief of a bloc intelligence station in West Germany), I had been waiting for something like that to happen ever since October 1998, when Joschka Fischer became Germany's foreign minister.Fischer is an indirect product of the old anti-American intelligence community to which I once belonged. In 1975 Libya's dictator, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, informed Romania's tyrant, Nicolae Ceausescu — through me — that he was preparing a terrorist attack against the Organization of Petroleum...

From the radicalism of the '60s to the interventionism of the '90s. The Passion of Joschka Fischer by Paul Berman Issue Date: 08.27.01 Post Date: 08.22.01 I. Last January, Stern magazine in Germany published a set of five grainy photographs of Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister and vice chancellor, as a young bully in a street battle in Frankfurt. It was April 1973. The photos showed: a figure in a black motorcycle helmet, labeled as Fischer, facing off against another figure in a white policeman's helmet, with a dented Volkswagen squatting in the background; the black-helmeted Fischer drawing near,...