Rote Zora Cells, a major far-left terrorist organisation in West Germany, which saw itself as a rival to the more prominent Red Army Faction. The organization took its name from the protagonist of the 1941 book "Die Rote Zora und ihre Bande" (english title The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle) by Kurt Held, which tells the story of a red-haired Croatian girl named Rote Zora ("rote" meaning red in German) who leads a gang of orphans committed to righting injustice. The organization had previously existed from 1974 as "Women of the Revolutionary Cells" and began its attacks in 1975, with a bombing of
Hitler's Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang paperback by Granada, London, in which an additional chapter recorded additional terrorist attacks by a "new generation" of young German terrorists carried out in 1977. The revised text was translated into several European languages and Japanese. It was also serialized in leading daily newspapers in London, Tokyo and Oslo. A third edition was published by Pickwick Books, London, in 1989, with additional material. The book chronicles the group and provides a brief biography of the main members, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, and also describes Ulrike Meinhof's life leading up to her terrorist career. Elsewhere in the book the author