Red Army Faction May 1972, members of the Baader-Meinhof gang armed six bombs in the Axel Springer Verlag in Hamburg. Only three of the six bombs exploded, but it was enough to injure 17 people. On 24 May 1972, just two weeks after the bombing of the United States headquarters in Frankfurt, the group set several car bombs off at the Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg. The bombing resulted in the death of three U.S officers and the injury of five others. On 10 November 1974, the group killed Günter von Drenkmann, the president of Germany's superior court of justice. The killing occurred after
Red Army previously dismissed officers to duty. However, the effect of the purges would soon manifest itself in the Winter War of 1940, where Red Army forces generally performed poorly against the much smaller Finnish Army, and later during the German invasion of 1941, in which the Germans were able to rout the Soviet defenders partially due to inexperience amongst the Soviet officers. The Soviet Union expanded its indigenous arms industry as part of Stalin's industrialisation program in the 1920s and 1930s. Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (, "Raboče-krestjjanskaja Krasnaja armija (RKKA)"), frequently shortened to Red Army (, "Krasnaja