The attempted assassination of Dutschke triggered mass street battles unseen since Weimar

Evidence

In April the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschkewho was critically injured by three shots from a revolver wielded by a twenty-three-year-old labourer called Josef Bachmannwas at once seen by the students as a consequence of the bloodthirsty mood stirred up against students by the Springer press. They reacted by blockading Springer. Some 60,000 young people throughout the Federal Republic attempted to prevent the delivery of Springer newspapers over Easter. There were street battles such as had not been seen in western Germany since the late Weimar Republic. In Munich a photographer and a student were fatally injured. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2641

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the logic of the assassination attempt and political violence as a catalyst; parallels the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand as a triggering event in a broader institutional narrative. — 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