Student + Extra P Opp FRG Flashcards
(42 cards)
Before 60s little extra parliamentary opp because? Why?
Ohne Mich = nazi enforced politicisation reaction, quiet efficiency of chancellor democracy + rise in LS
International student protests in 1968, where was the worst? How?
Paris, 1 million students and workers and tanks were even at parisian borders
What was the cultural conservatism?
Many rejected idea Germany responsible for the war and many still admired parts of the nazi regime
Emergence of what youth group in the 1950s? Impact?
Teddy Boys, provoked some journalistic debate
Fears of German youth being… and … about the past in the 1950s
Too americanised and there was collective amnesia about past
60’s demographic change? And politics change? Impact?
New Generation . SPD in coalition 1st time spur to extra parliamentary opposition.
Differing views on coalition 1966-69? What did this mean the coalition was?
Older saw it as unity and reassuring, far left saw it as heading to 1 party state.
Coalition a target for opposition and protest
Reasons for student protests?
-Wide Generation gap (1st post Hitler)
-Trail of 17 auschwits guards in 1963-1965 = more past debate
-left wing intellects and papers encourage criticism
-outdated + overcrowded unis with nazi academics in the posts still
-emergency laws 1968 seemed to confirm authoritarianism
-Anti-US revulsion
What was the first large scale student rebellion? When? Impact?
Sit in Free University of Berlin of 4000 people in 1966. Spared similiar demonstrations and political activism despite being online on uni specific issues
what happened in 1967? Impact?
Shah of Iran visited Berlin. Large demonstration against his regime, police heavy handed. benno ohnesorg killed.
What did Gunter Grass call the death of…?
“first political assassination of the federal republic” of Ohnesorg
Impact of Benno Ohnesorgs death?
June 2nd Movement
When did the june 2nd movement have organised protest groups in nearly all unis? what did the movement declare was legitimate?
Autumn 1967
Use of violence
What happened to an individual in 1968? + others there??
Rudi Dutschke was shot by a r/w worker at a mass demonstration in Berlin, at this 400 injured, 2 killed.
He was a prominent speaker for the APO rest of his life
demonstration in 1968? What did Kiesinger call it?
80,000 in Bonn against emergency laws.
“ of revolutionary character”
Through 1968 to 1969 protests about… Called what by Kiesinger?
vietnam war, atomic bomb, coalition government, bourgeois society = united large majority of those on far left.
“forces of anarchy”
By 1969, what had peaked? why?
APO
emergency laws passed, apo leadership divided, and when SPD left coalition, many returned to mainstream politics
What did people do after decline APO?
Small number to communism, even smaller number to Terrorism, most went and got degrees and entered academia or business.
When was the RAF founded? who main 3?
1969, Baader, Meinhof and Ensslin
What did the RAF opp? aim?
USA as imperialist power and called FRG a fascist hangover.
Aimed to provoke aggressive gov response to spark wider movement.
Early years of RAF supported…. then 70s…
Robin Hood notoriety. 70’s ^ extreme = loss support
What did the RAF expand to in the 70s
Expanded outside FRG and made contact militant palestine groups - PLO where they were sent to train
What did the PLO do in 1972
Killed 11 israeli athletes at Munich Olympics
