Rote Armee Fraktion

German

Alternative forms

• RAF (initialism)

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

die Rote Armee Fraktion f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Rote Armee Fraktion or der Roten Armee Fraktion)

1. Red Army Faction (German far-left terrorist organization active 1970-98)

   Synonyms: Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe, Baader-Meinhof-Bande (both mostly for the so-called “first generation”)

Usage notes

• The adjective rot should not be declined for case because it is included in the compound (Rote-Armee-Fraktion, “Faction of the Red Army”). Nevertheless declension is quite common (as though it were Rote Armeefraktion).