The Student Protests of the Seminal 1968: Differing Legacies in the US and Germany
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| 520 | 3 | |a During the turbulent 1960s and into the early 1970s, various political and social movements in the United States (US) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) intersected and provided overlapping chronologies. Amid the movements with constantly changing alliances and divergences, the student protest movements, Western terrorist groups, and the women’s rights movements developed as three of the significant crusades in both countries during the long 1960s, commonly delineated as 1960 to 1975. The two student movements, best represented through two entities with the acronym SDS reached their heyday in 1968. Both the Students for Democratic Society (SDS in the US) and the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (SDS in the FRG) lost internal cohesion and external impact by 1969. As SDS left the political stage, among the many groupings remaining or evolving, two on each side of the Atlantic stood out. Radical students found a new home in the terrorist organizations Weather Underground Organization (WUO in the US) and Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF – Red Army Faction in the FRG). Disaffected female student activists tended to turn towards the women’s rights movement, soon called second wave feminism. I argue that the combined force of the movements resulted in changes in the political landscape in Germany to a much larger degree than in the US.Evidence for my key argument relies on documents from the German archives at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS) and the Phillips-Universität Marburg (PUM), together with news media reports in both the US and Germany. The plethora of secondary sources contain biographies of contemporary actors, analysis from former participants in the movements and scholarly assessments found in books and journal articles. The secondary sources further include the works of renowned revolutionaries, philosophers, sociologists, and feminists who laid the theoretical foundations for the movements. My secondary argument points to the pervasiveness of the works of these theorists, particularly those of the Frankfurter Schule in underpinning and guiding the protesters. The majority of this thesis attends to familiar historical events and analysis to put them into comparisons. Some of the comparisons exist in scholarly literature today. However, the main argument that 1968 reverberates through the German political landscape considerably louder than through the one in the US appears not to have been made before. This thesis attempts to fill that void. | |
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