Terrorism

Uli Edel's 2008 film about the Red Army Faction became an instant cultural sensation and still shapes how Europeans remember the terrorist group.

Between 1992 and 1993, a single man terrorized all of Germany with bomb threats against major department stores. Arno Funke, operating under the alias 'Dagobert,' evaded capture for months before finally being arrested—and now features in a new Amazon series starring Friedrich Mücke.

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, bestyrelsesformand for Treuhand, blev dræbt af RAF-terrorister i sit hjem i Düsseldorf den 1. april 1991.Mordet markerede den mest spektakulære terroristattак i Tyskland efter årtier.

Between 2000 and 2007, the far-right terror group National Socialist Underground killed nine migrants and one police officer across Germany. Police suspected the victims' families instead of recognizing the obvious racist motive.

A German journalist has documented how the country's domestic intelligence service knew about the right-wing extremists behind the NSU terror murders since 1998 but chose silence. A new book based on 1,000 classified pages reveals systematic protection of agents at the expense of victims.

Rote Armee Fraktion var en marxistisk-leninistisk terrorgruppe, der i næsten tre årtier gennemførte attentater, bankrøverier og kidnappinger mod vesttyske staten og kapitalistiske symboler.

Stefan Aust's 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' became the standard work on the Red Army Faction. With over 500,000 copies sold and an Oscar-nominated film adaptation, the book continues to shape our understanding of Germany's darkest political era.

Nils Minkmar's book documents five years of trial proceedings against NSU terrorists and raises uncomfortable questions about systematic failures by German police and intelligence services.

A German student was sentenced to five years in prison in 2023 for membership in a left-wing extremist criminal organization. It marks the first time in Germany that anyone has been imprisoned under this provision for left-wing extremism.

In December 2022, German authorities arrested 25 people for planning an armed coup against the state. The group consisted of Reichsbürger members—right-wing extremists who reject the legitimacy of the Federal Republic of Germany and claim the pre-1945 German Reich still exists legally.

On June 25, 2021, Somali-born Abdirahman Muse killed three people and wounded five others in a knife attack in Würzburg, Germany. The 24-year-old attacker, motivated by Islamist extremism and struggling with severe mental illness, was overpowered by bystanders and arrested. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in December 2022.

On August 23, 2024, a brutal knife attack occurred at a cultural festival in Solingen, Germany, killing three people and wounding eight others. The perpetrator, a 26-year-old Syrian man, was arrested three days later and linked to Islamist extremism.

On October 9, 2019, Stephan Balliet, a 27-year-old German right-wing extremist, attacked a synagogue and kebab restaurant in Halle an der Saale with the aim of killing as many people as possible. The attack was stopped by police, but resulted in two deaths and several wounded.

On February 19, 2020, right-wing extremist Tobias Rathjen killed nine people with immigrant backgrounds in two shisha bars in Hanau. A subsequent investigation exposed serious failures by police and authorities.

On 26 September 1980, a bomb exploded at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, killing 13 people and wounding more than 200. The device was detonated at the entrance to the Theresienwiese fairgrounds during the festival's peak evening hours. The attacker's identity was established but his full network and motives were never officially resolved, with investigations pointing toward far-right extremist circles.

On September 26, 1980, a bomb tore through the main entrance of Munich's Oktoberfest, killing 13 people and wounding over 200. After decades of investigation, the case was closed without the full truth being revealed.

The Red Army Faction (RAF) was a far-left terrorist organisation that operated in West Germany from 1970 to 1998. Founded by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and others, the group carried out kidnappings, bombings and assassinations targeting prominent business leaders and politicians. The RAF's campaign of violence, which claimed more than 30 lives, reached its peak during the autumn of 1977 — West Germany's gravest security crisis since the Second World War.

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