West German rearmament with nuclear weapons provoked mass strikes and huge protests
Evidence
On 25 March 1958 the majority in the Bundestag, after four days of debate, agreed to allow West German armed forces to be equipped with atomic weapons within the NATO framework, thus belatedly approving what was already a fait accompli. Several thousand manufacturing workers at Henschel in Kassel went on strike. Fifty-two per cent of the adult population of West Germany and West Berlin were in favour of a strike to prevent the army from acquiring atomic weapons. In the middle of April, 150,000 people took part in a demonstration in Hamburg. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 579
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s institutional-history thread on postwar West Germany and the CDU restoration covered earlier in the book. — connects to: West German plans to arm forces with atomic weapons triggered mass protests — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345; West German rearmament with atomic weapons spurred the first large-scale protest wave — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345; A narrow majority of West Germans favored strikes against atomic arming — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: West German plans to arm forces with atomic weapons triggered mass protests — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345; West German rearmament with atomic weapons spurred the first large-scale protest wave — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345; A narrow majority of West Germans favored strikes against atomic arming — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2345 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- West German plans to arm forces with atomic weapons triggered mass protests
#corroborates(0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2345 - West German rearmament with atomic weapons spurred the first large-scale protest wave
#corroborates(0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2345 - West German mass organizations contained internal forces that systematically restrained political action.
#complicates(0.74) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 580