terrorism-in-germany

On May 21, 1975, the trial against he Baader-Meinhof-Group (or Red Army Faction) began in Stuttgart. The RAF was responsible for an assassination attempt on General Kroesen in 1981. A short excerpt:

"The RAF
In its early years, the Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, RAF) was commonly known in the media as the Baader-Meinhof Gang (or Group). The RAF, West Germany’s most prominent left-wing militant group, was founded in 1970 by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler and Ulrike Meinhof. They described themselves as a communist, anti-imperialist “urban guerrilla” group engaged in armed resistance against the Federal Republic of Germany, which they regarded as a fascist state. The RAF was responsible for the murders of 34 people, and numerous bomb attacks, arsons, kidnappings and other crimes between 1970 and 1998.

The RAF’s origins can be traced back to the German student rebellions of the 1960s (led by Rudi Dutschke). Their antiautoritär (anti-authority) attitudes helped foster a unique brand of German anti-establishment terrorism that continued sporadically into the 1990s...

...The big RAF trial, which the court allowed at times to become a circus, began on May 21, 1975. The proceedings took almost two years (a total of 192 days in session), finally ending on April 28, 1977. In the meantime, most of the defendants had died in prison. The three remaining RAF defendants were convicted of murder, attempted murder and forming a terrorist organization. They were sentenced to life in prison."