Rote Armee Fraktion

== German == === Alternative forms === RAF (initialism) === Pronunciation === === Proper noun === die Rote Armee Fraktion f (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) Synonyms: Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe, Baader-Meinhof-Bande (both mostly for the so-called “first generation”) ==== Usage notes ==== The adjective rot should not be declined for case because it is included in the compound (Rote-Armee-Fraktion, “Faction of the Red Army”). Nevertheless declension is quite common (as though it were Rote Armeefraktion).