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Rote Armee Fraktion
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German
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Alternative forms
de RAF initialism
Pronunciation
de De-Rote Armee Fraktion.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun f die Rote Armee Fraktion proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Rote Armee Fraktion or der Roten Armee Fraktion
Red Army Faction German far-left terrorist organization active 1970-98
de Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe Baader-Meinhof-Bande both mostly for the so-called “first generation”
Usage notes
The adjective de rot should not be declined for case because it is included in the compound (de Rote-Armee-Fraktion, “Faction of the Red Army”). Nevertheless declension is quite common (as though it were de Rote Armeefraktion).
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