May 1968 fused French and West German student revolt over emergency laws

Evidence

In a discussion with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a rebel sociology student who had risen to fame overnight, Sartre appealed to the students not to flinch from the attempt to bring fantasy to power and expand the realm of possibility. In West Germany, May was marked by the struggle against the introduction of legislation to enable a state of emergency to be declared. Almost 100,000 people demonstrated in Bonn on 11 May. On 20 May a wave of occupations of institutes and universities began in Berlin and spread. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 660

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A neo-Nazi’s attempted killing of Dutschke reignited West German protests in April 1968 — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 91; Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676; Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A neo-Nazi’s attempted killing of Dutschke reignited West German protests in April 1968 — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 91; Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676; Partial French education created a frustrated literate-unemployed class that fueled revolt (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Prominent right-wing thinkers remained dissatisfied with restored West German society #complicates (0.70) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2516