Also: by calling Baader & co a gang, Bild also tried to underplay their importance -- but RAF became a 'professional' terrorist organisation with international contacts and a bloody trail, and with this term, English-speakers may not fully contemplate how serious Germany's experience of terrorism was. (At least, the warmongers accusing Europe of cluelessness and cowardice over terrorism displayed such ignorance.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}