Explore 89 historical events and records for Germany in 1970.
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Having earlier befriended Ensslin and Baader, Mahler helps plot to spring Baader from prison after his 1970 arrest. Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan for their brief guerrilla warfare training with the PFLP/Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)
Mahler conceives of an audacious plan to rob four Berlin banks simultaneously. The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others.
Tried and convicted for bank robberies and for assisting Baaders prison escape. Escapes to Jordan and trains in guerrilla tactics with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Once Baader escaped, the three, along with Ulrike Meinhof, commit a series of bank robberies.
A manifesto authored by Meinhof uses the name "RAF" and the red-star logo with a Heckler and Koch MP5 submachine gun for the first time.
Baader, Ensslin, Mahler, and Meinhof go to Jordan for their brief guerrilla warfare training with the PFLP/Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
This marked the beginning of the "anti-imperialistic fight", with bank robberies to raise money and explosives, and arson attacks against U.S. military facilities, German police stations, and buildings of the Axel Springer press empire.
The Red Army Faction is founded by Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler, Ulrike Meinhof, Irmgard Muller and others
Appears on Tone Float, the Organisation album that leads directly toward Kraftwerk.
Appears on Tone Float before moving into the more focused Kraftwerk project.
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