April 11, 1968

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Martin Antonenko

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Three Shots At Rudi Dutschke...


On April 11, 1968, one of the leading figures in the leftist and reformist German student movement, Rudi Dutschke…



...by three shots, including a headshot, by unskilled worker Josef Bachmann...



... critically injured. Here is the location of the assassination on the Kurfürstendamm at Berlin, Dutschke's bicycle with his inevitable briefcase is still there...:



Bachmannn will refer to the police for months almost daily hate articles in the “Bild” newspaper and other Springer press media against Dutschke – in particular the hate headline “Stripping out troublemakers among students”…:



Bachmann sah sich als "Vollstrecker" des "gesunden Volksempfindens" gegen die sogenannten "langhaarigen Affen".

Als das Attentat bekannt wird, kommt zu zu teils gewalttätigen Protesten der Studenten gegen das Verlangshaus des Axel-Springer-Verlages...:

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Rudi Dutschke is slowly recovering from the assassination, but will never fully recover.

On Christmas Eve 1979, he will drown in the bathtub when he suffers an epileptic seizure – a late consequence of the assassination attempt.

At the site of the assassination in front of the house at Kurfürstendamm 141, a commemorative plaque commemorates the event...:

 

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