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A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke

A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke

German student activist (1940–1979)
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORYGERMANY20TH CENTURYHISTORICAL EVENTS
🗓️ 11 April 1968

Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke was a German sociologist and political activist who, until severely injured by an assassin in 1968, was a leading charismatic figure within the Socialist Students Union (SDS) in West Germany, and that country's broader "extra-parliamentary opposition" (APO).

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