West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978The anti-authoritarian revolt of the 1960s and 1970s was a watershed in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The rebellion of the so-called '68ers' - against cultural conformity and the ideological imperatives of the Cold War, against the American war in Vietnam, and in favor of a more open accounting for the crimes of the Nazi era - helped to inspire a dialogue on democratization with profound effects on German society. Timothy Scott Brown examines the unique synthesis of globalizing influences on West Germany to reveal how the presence of Third World students, imported pop culture from America and England, and the influence of new political doctrines worldwide all helped to precipitate the revolt. The book explains how the events in West Germany grew out of a new interplay of radical politics and popular culture, even as they drew on principles of direct-democracy, self-organization and self-determination, all still highly relevant in the present day. |
Contents
Space | 21 |
BerlinSchoneberg October 21 1967 | 31 |
Time | 79 |
against the Emergency Laws Berlin Wedding May 1968 | 82 |
October 21 1967 | 102 |
Word | 116 |
Sound | 155 |
Internationale Essener Songtage September 1968 | 156 |
February 1968 | 225 |
Power | 234 |
in front of the Rathaus Schoneberg JohnF KennedyPlatz | 237 |
of school pupils in the Hohenstaufenstrafge Berlin | 245 |
Sex | 286 |
the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile November 3 1973 | 324 |
April 11 1968 | 331 |
anarchosyndicalist organizations FAICNT | 358 |
kaputt was euch kaputt macht 1971 | 171 |
Berlin Charlottenburg April 1971 | 194 |
University July 20 1964 | 202 |
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