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Divergent Fates History 323 / April 24, 2013. A radical commune in Hamburg, 1968. Kurt-Georg Kiesinger: an ex-Nazi as West German Chancellor, 1966-69. Beate Klarsfeld : shouting Kiesinger down, April 1968; slapping the Chancellor, November 1968.
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Kurt-Georg Kiesinger:an ex-Nazi as West German Chancellor, 1966-69
BeateKlarsfeld: shouting Kiesinger down, April 1968;slapping the Chancellor, November 1968
Anti-Vietnam demo in Berlin“Class struggle, not war among peoples”“Amis out of Indochina”“For the complete victory of the [Vietnamese] Liberation Front”
Rudi Dutschke, charismatic leader of the SDS(Socialist German Student League)
Protesters compare the BILD-Zeitung of 1968with Nazi anti-Semitic papers from 1938
Outside Willy Brandt’s hotel,Erfurt, East Germany,March 1970
Frankfurt’s “sponti” scene(here: strikes against higher ticket prices for public transit in 1974)
Helmut Kohl (right) congratulated by Helmut Schmidt, October 1982
An “Easter March” in the Ruhr, 1983(No new atomic rockets in our country – fight atomic death)
The police presence at Brokdorf (after earlier violent clashes)
The greens enter the Bundestag, 1983(here with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, looking perplexed)
Demonstrations against the construction of a new runwayat the Frankfurt airport (1984)
Joschka Fischer sworn in as “Minister of the Environment” in Hesse(December 1985)
Inside the stores: the GDR claimed to have all these goods available…
… but often people had to wait in line for groceries, shoes, and other necessities
Kitchen and living room of anEast German apartment, ca. 1963
Socialist modern: the “tin can” building in Leipzig(building from 1908; façade renovated 1966-68)