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The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke

The student leader was shot in April 1968, leading to protests in West Berlin. He became the symbol for a generation of young Germans.

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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Fri 13 Apr 2018 07:50GMT

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