Baader-Meinhof Gang

Taking what were sensational police and media stories of domestic terrorism and kidnapping--the Baader-Meinhof Gang in the Republic of Germany and the Symbionese Liberation Army with it's famous hostage-turned-conspirator Patty Hearst in the U.S.--and re-presenting their photographed remains in oil (Richter) and silkscreen on aluminum (Noland), the enflamed iconography and rhetoric of the 1960s-70s Left generation seems appropriately eulogized and put to rest.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

Taking what were sensational police and media stories of domestic terrorism and kidnapping--the Baader-Meinhof Gang in the Republic of Germany and the Symbionese Liberation Army with it's famous hostage-turned-conspirator Patty Hearst in the U.S.--and re-presenting their photographed remains in oil (Richter) and silkscreen on aluminum (Noland), the enflamed iconography and rhetoric of the 1960s-70s Left generation seems appropriately eulogized and put to rest.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

I also can't abide the condescending chumminess implicit in using my first name instead of "Mr. Queenan," as if the telemarketer and I were old friends from the 1972 Ohio State Big 10 championship team or the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

Wotan, Your Double-Skim Latte Is Ready Joe Queenan 2011

Mr. Edel was 30 in the fall of 1977 when West Germany became almost paralyzed by the exploits of the Red Army Faction founded in 1970 as the Baader-Meinhof Gang and other urban guerrilla groups.

Terrorism Back on the Big Screen Richard B. Woodward 2010

Anyone familiar with the true story of the Baader-Meinhof Gang knows that this portrayal is by no means an exaggeration.

David Wallechinsky: Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film 2009

The same thing with Germany and the Baader-Meinhof Gang.

JB Powell: Thom Hartmann: Edwards Next Potential FDR, Obama Next JFK 2008

If you recall, in the 1970s and '80s, terrorist groups like the Baader-Meinhof Gang of Germany and the Red Brigades of Italy were tearing around Europe, blowing up buildings and assassinating people on the streets.

War on Terror Is Not a War, and It Is Not About Terror 2006

Leaders of Baader-Meinhof Gang, the terrorist Red Army faction that had emerged from the radical Left of the 1960s student movements, were arrested.

1972, June 2001

With his wife, Petra, Bock had been a unit leader in the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and after that had been crushed by the West German police, in the Red Army Faction.

The Sum of all Fears Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1991

And the Baader-Meinhof Gang didn't even say they were sorry!

News & Politics 2010