The 1967 Berlin protest against the CIA-installed Shah radicalized West Germany’s student movement
Evidence
In West Germany the Communist Party was illegal, but the other half of the country was run by officials loyal to Moscow. Rudi Dutschke, one of the most prominent student leaders in the West, knew that system well, as he had grown up there. In 1967 the movement radicalized after its raucous demonstration in West Berlin against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the man installed as leader of Iran after a 1953 CIA-led coup, was put down violently and one student was killed. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 91
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2676; 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; US restoration of the Shah in 1953 remains a live grievance for Iranians — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 296
Broader Connections
- US restoration of the Shah in 1953 remains a live grievance for Iranians
#corroborates(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 296 - Post-1968 West Germany entered a reform era partly caused by the protest movement itself
#corroborates(0.78) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2676 - A neo-Nazi’s attempted killing of Dutschke reignited West German protests in April 1968
#qualifies(0.75) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 91