Germany’s ‘1968’: new questions and directions (original) (raw)

2021

Abstract

There are a number of difficulties encountered when teaching the history of Germany’s ‘1968,’ the first of which is suggested by the single quotation marks placed around the date in our title. Of course, the protest movements of the 1960s cannot be understood with reference to one year alone, or even to only one country. Our chapter will explore ways to teach Germany’s ‘1968’ as a global phenomenon, and one in which a number of previously overlooked groups (e.g. women in particular) were significantly involved, in order to demonstrate the multifaceted nature and effects of the 1960s protest movement from new and broader perspectives. Activists in the so-called ‘anti-authoritarian’ wing of the student movement in West Germany and West Berlin rejected the traditional power structures and called for a global revolution. Now that fifty years have passed since 1968, further difficult questions about what the so-called ‘revolution’ of the 1960s achieved are more pressing than ever. It is ...

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