0:00.0	This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.
0:06.6	We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict
0:11.8	all across the world. Popular Front is completely independent.
0:16.0	Today we're speaking to Bertold Younger. He is a fact checker and researcher for the German newspaper D Spiegel and he has been following
0:26.4	very closely for a very long time the Red Army faction.
0:31.2	A militant violent Marxist-Leninist group from Germany did a lot of
0:36.5	damage back in the day. Militant attacks, all that stuff. Several of their
0:41.0	members have been on the run for three decades now.
0:45.0	Recently one was core and two managed to get away still on the run.
0:48.0	It's a very interesting story.
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0:55.0	Before we go into
0:57.0	before we go into this new situation with the Red Army faction or
1:06.8	Beta Mine Off or however people want to talk about it, maybe let's kind of
1:10.9	start with who they actually are because I think there's probably a lot of people
1:15.8	especially some of our younger listeners who are not quite aware of who the RAF is.
1:22.0	Yes, I can imagine that because it's basically history.
1:27.0	20 years ago they had their final murder in 93. Typical situation, police wanted to arrest one of them and they pulled the gun and shot the police.
1:42.0	And the whole thing started in 68.
1:45.0	In 68 there was the student rebellion in Western countries and in Germany it was kind of an offspring of that and most of those
1:59.0	students from that time went through the institutions became Green Party, became SPD members and so on.
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