Marcuse’s 1966 Frankfurt SDS address became West Germany’s largest anti-war demonstration.

Evidence

On 22 May 1966 he gave the main address at the conference organized at Frankfurt University by the SDS (the league of German Socialist Students) on `VietnamAnalysis of a Model’. More than 2000 students and several professors and trade-unionists took part in the conference. Among the speakers and chairmen of study groups were Jürgen Habermas and Oskar Negt. The conference ended with the largest demonstration against the Vietnam War that had yet taken place in West Germany. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 648

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School’s institutional history: the SDS conference marks the moment Institute-associated theorists and the student New Left converge publicly. — connects to: The 1967 Be-In rapidly multiplied into a much larger anti-war rally — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1976; Homogeneous closed communities preceded and intensified political radicalization into terrorism in West Germany. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4108; Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The 1967 Be-In rapidly multiplied into a much larger anti-war rally — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1976; Homogeneous closed communities preceded and intensified political radicalization into terrorism in West Germany. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4108; Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676 (+2 more)