The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 1968 Europe was rocked by student demonstrations calling for a revolution. In West Berlin the protests intensified following the shooting of student leader Rudi Dutschke on April 11th 1968. He would become a symbol for a generation of young Germans. In 2013 Lucy Burns spoke to his widow Gretchen Klotz-Dutschke about the attack.

(Image: Gretchen Klotz-Dutschke(L) Rudi Dutschke(R) Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

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1:06.0	You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. Today we're going back to 1968, a year of student demonstrations and anti-government
1:16.7	protests across much of the Western world. In Germany, the demonstrations increased in intensity following the shooting of a student leader called Rudy Dutcheka on April the 11th of that year.
1:30.0	Lucy Burns spoke to his widow Gretchen Clots Dutka in 2013.
1:35.0	Spring 1968.
1:41.0	Fights with the police. 1968. at church services. Sit-ins. What's behind all this turmoil? The students of
1:57.6	West Berlin are in revolt. Like many young people around the world, they're
2:02.3	protesting against the war in Vietnam,
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