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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's dusk on June 2nd, 1967, outside the German Opera House in West Berlin.

Behind a police barrier, a young female student stands among a crowd of angry protesters. They're demonstrating

against the leader of Iran, Muhammad Rajas Shah, who's been invited to attend tonight's

performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute, despite his government's notorious record on human rights.

The young student spots of black Mercedes pull up in front of the entrance.

Shoulder to shoulder with other protesters, she joins the rising chant of murderer as security agents surround the car and usher the Shaw and his wife toward the opera house.

Roaring in anger, the protesters fling tomatoes and eggs at them, but the couple soon disappear inside,

and that seems to be a cue

for the police outside to advance. The officer's aggression is sudden and shocking. Swinging their

batons, they forced the demonstrators back from the opera house. Frightened, the young woman

looks around, but suddenly the friends she came with are nowhere to be seen. She tried to find a way out, but she realizes she's trapped like everyone else.

Her only escape is to an underground parking lot beneath a nearby building.

All around her is chaos.

The student has jostled by fleeing protesters.

She stumbles, hitting the side of a car and falls to the ground. People trip and vault

over her, and she struggles to get back to her feet. She manages to rise into a crouch and is frantically

searching for somewhere else to hide when the crack of a gunshot reverberates through the parking

line. Terrifying. The student looks around her

and then sees a young man

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