Research on the Rote Armee Fraktion

 2. Research the "Rote Armee Fraktion" RAF and
provide a second post with your findings of
 
- the causes

• Government was seen to be fascist by some German resident
• Group of German residents teamed up to protest against it 
• They were "Communist"
  

- the three generations of activists

• First generation was from 1970 to 1975.  The founders consisted of Brigitte Asdonk, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Horst Mahler, Horst Söhnlein, Thorwald Proll, Jan-Carl Raspe · Irmgard Möller, Holger Meins, Astrid Proll, and Beate Sturm (Bolded are most famous).
• Second generation lasted from 1975 to 1982.  This generation consisted of numerous people from another group labeled as the Socialist Patients' Collective (SPK).  Most of the first generation members had been captured and imprisoned.  In response to that, new members teamed up to form a second generation.  The key members of this included: Siegfried Hausner, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Sieglinde Hofmann, Margrit Schiller, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Klaus Jünschke, Hanna-Elise Krabbe, Friederike Krabbe, Carmen Roll, Bernhard Rössner, Lutz Taufer, Elisabeth von Dyck, Ulrich Wessel, Gerhard Müller, Knut Folkerts, Ralf Baptist Friedrich, and Bernhard Braun.  SPK members probably wanted to join the RAF because they believed that in order to regain social order, a violent revolution needed to take place.  And the RAF was seemed to display that since at the end of it all, there was a death toll of 34 people. 
• The third generation executed a lot more of their actions in violence when compared to other generations.  This generation spurred off when a man by the name of Wolfgang Grams started to visit two members from the first generation in prison.  When he was there visiting, he found the living conditions to be rough and inhumane.  He started to date a woman by the name of Birgit Hogefeld and the third generation was kicked off.  Some of the members were Wolfgang Grams, Birgit Hogefeld, Eva Haule, Andrea Klump, Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Klette, Burkhard Garweg, Sabine Elke Callsen, Barbara Meyer, Horst Ludwig Meyer, and Christoph Eduard Seidler.      

- the similarities between current day's terro attacks and the RAF  

Similarities

• Both use terror to create action instaed of using words
• Used to create fear in politics or religion.  But the RAF was for politics and not religion 
• Both needed armed forces to try stopping them
• Attack in their own country
• Disregardful for the safety of civilians
  

Differences

• Terrorists attack in countries other than their own, at times