During the 1970's, Revolutionary Cells (RZ) was perhaps the most successful (based upon the number of attacks & the limited number of arrests) of the left-wing German terrorist organizations, although certainly not the most well known. This article is becoming very long. ...
Different in group organization from the much more well known Baader-Meinhof Gang, they were very loosely organized into tight knit cells - making them much harder to track down and apprehend. RAF Logo The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, was postwar Germanys most active radical leftist paramilitary group, which is widely regarded as a terrorist organization. ...
The group believed that their organization members should be regular members of society, again in contrast to the Baader-Meinhof Gang who believed that revolutionaries should truly be underground, or outside the system.
The group is assumed to have broken up and merged back into society after the collapse of the Soviet Union.