Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth (Netherlands) Red Youth () was a communist organization in the Netherlands. It originated in the group around the periodical "Rode Jeugd", which had been started by the pro-China "Rode Vlag"-grouping in 1966. In October 1967 the group around "Rode Jeugd" broke away, and formed their own organisation, Red Youth. Lucien van Hoesel (born 1950) became the national secretary of Red Youth. Inside Red Youth two wings emerged. On one side stood the 'terrorists', who were inspired by the Red Army Faction ("Rote Armee Fraktion") and who saw the strategy of urban guerrilla warfare as a path to follow
Red Army Faction being ostracized by the rest of the group. There is, however, evidence to the contrary of this hypothesis. During the trial, more attacks took place. One of these was on 7 April 1977, when Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback, his driver, and his bodyguard were shot and killed by two RAF members while waiting at a red traffic light. Buback, who had been a Nazi member during WWII, was considered by RAF as one of the key persons for their trial. Among other things, two years earlier, while being interviewed by "Stern" magazine, he stated that "Persons like Baader don't deserve