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Jun 5, 2026
Ian Buruma
Following World War II, the most militant student movements emerged in the former Axis powers as a way to cope with previous generations' complicity. But while the Red Army Faction and others were haunted by memories of past crimes, today's young people have mostly forgotten, and a growing number think far-right politics are cool.
NEW YORK—Last month, a 67-year-old German woman named Daniela Klette was sentenced to 13 years in prison for armed robberies committed between 1999 and 2016. When Klette, one of the last surviving members of the Red Army Faction, was arrested in 2024, authorities found a pistol, an assault rifle, gold, and large sums of cash in her Berlin apartment, where she had been hiding under an assumed name.
