Hundred much but im stuck on a schedule be attacked. The new one whats good is it could happen but friends watch out for only i dont tend to go around on my own. Misguided. But of course a crazy guy could just flip. Since i know how to stand on we arrived on the scene half an hour ago because when its the police are currently securing the evidence and its terrible with this i cant be impersonal listened to his shoes are still on the street theres blood carefully surrounded by a chalk outlines the Standard Police procedure side of us what sorts of signs would also be leaked and the bicycle is still in the exact position it was after it was hit by three or four shots its really just awful to seditious because. This is really this is time for a check to see. The only purpose of our lives more or less lies in our absolute devotion to the truth we can only achieve freedom and order by continuously striving for truth truth is righteous order. A twenty year old student wrote these lines in one thousand nine hundred sixty and got to ninety eight years later he was the leader of the extra parliamentary opposition a media and on form terry. Really did chair the brains of the Student Movement had been shot i know. One of the eyewitnesses is here obviously but its the stunt you were here and saw what happened to us because she and i leave yeah i get that we thought they were shooting pigeons but then we saw a man running away we came over here and lying there he stood up and screamed for his parents and he. Said i have to get to the barbers with iran another fifteen meters then he collapsed his last words were soldiers soldiers. Among the soldiers returning home after the war was out for. He being conscripted at the young age little rooty didnt know his father but at home his mother always told him that men in uniforms werent to be trusted rudy would never accept his fathers in the forty figure. Else but dutch girl raised four sons on her run rudy was the youngest born on the seventh of march nine hundred forty one his father was already at the front his mother raised her children in the Christian Faith she was a devout protestant pious but not on worldly. Islam of the mine shaft of the mine shaft my that was a community where my mother was in charge my father fell into line two when my father came back he didnt want to recognize my father as his biological father because hed never seen him he would rebel when my father said here dont touch that. Because i thought he would hit back if he was slapped. The dodgers lived in lookin voda a small rural town in vandenberg some fifteen kilometers south of berlin in the heart of communist east germany. Looking back he wrote the rural tradition definitely has a certain warmth but its always based on im limited to hard work in the field i definitely didnt have a liberal middle class childhood i had to work hard. In one nine hundred fifty four rudy started in the get hot helped my high school and look at. History was his favorite subject he was a conscientious student and got good grades not because it was demanded of him but because he enjoyed learning and set himself high standards. He once wrote we can see today what the few other and this is i should have brought as a unified germany is currently inconceivable my mother didnt have us four sons for the war we hate the war and want peace even at a young age really dodged made no attempts to hide his convictions. In november nine hundred fifty eight rudy spoke publicly for the first time at the annual congress of the socalled free german youth school group he had rehearsed his speech at home he didnt talk about sports but about why people shouldnt join the National Peoples army. And there was trouble last year when i wasnt willing to join the army i was a member of the free german youth. And there was a confrontation at an annual congress when i voiced an opinion about the army and socialism and about the national question. I came out in favor of reunification and socialism but not socialism in its current form is to do. That. Instead of the grade he deserved because overall grade was reduced which meant that he forfeited his place studying sports journalism in leipsic. Instead he trained to be an industrial clunk he hopes the east German Authorities would forget about him but after completing his training he was refused a place in leipzig a second time. Rudi decided to study in west germany instead but to do that he first had to get a west German High School diploma the wall was not yet built and he commuted back and forth between look at nevada and west berlin he seemed immune to the temptations of the capitalist city he was at home as much as possible but suddenly this way back was closed off. Down beneath with wooden doll i drove to tell toe on the edge of west berlin with rudy on a motorbike it was all closed off already in preparation for the wall but there were checks on the way that if they knew us and they let us leave i drove them to the station and tell. If thats where we said good bye in sixty one thinking it wouldnt be long now that i think that. East germany turned him into a foreigner but. Germany was also foreign to him looking valder was his home. Was to remain an advocate for german reunification for the rest of his life. Now after the Second World War the government started talking nonstop about reunification twenty years have gone by and its not happening what we do have governments that are institutionalized lying machines machines of half truths and distortion the people arent being told the truth means theres no dialogue with the masses no critical dialogue that could explain whats going on in society and how the economic miracle suddenly came to an end and why theres no progress on reunification it is virtuous when this talk of relaxing the rules to allow more freedom of Movement Across the border but what they mean is maintaining their own political power might offer political nasha. In october nine hundred sixty one Rudi Dutschke the enrolled at the Free University in west berlin he studied sociology he was rooted a seeker and so he imagined himself in his studies he Read Everything he laid his hands on. I feel splendid at the moment i studied tirelessly for ten to twelve hours a day he wrote in his diary. He read heidegger royd plato and max weber. The crucial thing was he read. That was a protestant trait certainty came from the written word but which word. Read on and on reading never meant just understanding to him it also meant understanding something about himself the twenty two year old christian with a socialist heart red car marks. Who commented the only thing that mattered to me in that moment was reading and studying those things that didnt match my direct experience of life in east germany but were still connected. Would call this a process of working through he worked through his past and recognized even in real world socialism people exploited each other. There is no true socialism on earth yet socialism with a human face. From then on this would be his utopia. Sociology is an all round area of study and unwinding of Human History he cared about the big picture and would no longer settle for anything less. On a list of expenses he noted hundred marks means to preserve the body and therefore the mind everything was aimed at understanding understanding first then action. In his student lodgings dreamed of changing the world. In one nine hundred sixty four the congolese Prime Minister morse a trauma bay visited Berlin Church goer organized a protest injunction with a subversive happening planned by a group of artists in berlin. He led the protesters to shine a bird town hall while his demonstration had Police Approval this route was illegal it was greeted with tomatoes he was accused of having arranged the murder of Patrice Lumumba who had served as the first Prime Minister of the independent democratic republic of the congo it was the first time students clashed with police a scandal in berlin it was almost arrested strong athlete that he was he was able to get a wife. On the one hand there was a critic of the borzois capitalist order but on the other he was a devoted family man. Met an American Woman in a cafe in one thousand nine hundred sixty four and name was gay and she was a christian he could talk to her about religion and theology they became close but dutch his first love was for the revolution and he broke up with her the split didnt last long. He remembered lived with bleach and clots in american women she studying theology. The says is on revolutionary tendencies in the upper stalling age. While rudys comrades were waxing lyrical about free love he chose a very different style. With. Bonnie. And as a line festac we wanted to have a party and we invited lots of people i know. I know thats fine like now friends people from different working groups from the third world groups theyre done so i know our hawks i we composed a kind of wedding speech and it was read out loud as a kind of sermon like their complacent. Heart. Prayed. Berlin in the mid sixtys wrote things are getting serious now for the revolutionaries who see they are a tiny minority that will remain irrelevant to society for quite some time because it exists largely outside of society. Wanted to get those who are disadvantaged by the capitalist system to become active because people only destroy their traditional norms if they believe they can improve their situation. To the socialist German Student League formerly the student wing of the social Democratic Party seemed to be the perfect instrument for this. He rose quickly through the leagues ranks but many long established members thought he was too radical. His nickname was put upon the word push meaning to. Weeks. Its often difficult to reconcile the demands of studying with being politically and socially active. Tash. In ramallah i had the satchel every morning he filled it with books around twenty of them it was always full i couldnt lift it he carried it around so he always had something to read. So we sit down together very often to talk critically about our past activities to come up with new theoretical approaches and to prepare for the next round of confrontations visits him for. His political concept was summarized as education through action he was impressed by the fiery action ism of other revolutionaries such as dita consumer and for its toys for the church got involved in their plans for a commune moving in together free conversation and free love but rudy was married and took his vows as seriously as he took politics free love wasnt his thing and he could get a natural high from ideas. Rolling thunder in february one thousand nine hundred fifty five the americans started their aerial Bombing Campaign of North Vietnam the first Ground Troops arrived in march the vietnam war outraged many left leaning intellectuals not least in germany included it was an issue with International Impact and clear perpetrators and victims. Americans get out of viet nam demanded the activists who staged protests demonstrate their solidarity with the viet cong who first made up rudy and his fellow student activists used illegal tactics such as pedestrian provocation disguised as harmless but estrogens they distributed flyers and regularly came together as blocks of demonstrators. They numbered only around fifty but the Police Arrested eighty six pedestrians including window shoppers tourists to journalists and will be judged he was. Said the ring leader he was no longer one of many he was now a public figure fag. The berlin aside to newspaper described him as having messy black hair pacing on his on the bushy eyebrows and a Leather Jacket as societys Worst Nightmare made flesh according to the right wing press and by x. Wish to bring a wherever he showed up trouble wasnt fat white. Ladies and gentleman vietnam isnt the talking point on the third of june vietnam will be the talking point tomorrow during the shahs visit to the vietnam arent they stabbed it. Is when the shelter of persia came to visit we didnt know much about iran about our own country we thought the shah was just an attractive man with an attractive wife and a happy family from a happy country it wasnt until the students came with their flying is that we learnt the truth about the show that he was to blame for maintaining and they literally rate among his people of eighty percent who doesnt know that infant mortality it was fifty percent and that he himself pocketed four hundred Million Dollars every year while his subject stove on just seventy dollars i on the evening of the second of june an opera visit the schedule of the magic flute but the theatre started before hand the shah had brought with him supporters who launched themselves at the anti shah demonstrators fighting. I a student then owners org was shot by Police Officer col high school last night from now on everything seemed possible pascha vietnam. The state firing shots it seemed like rudy was right the Free Democratic order was revealing its true thanks violent and maybe even fascist. A week later benno on a zog was buried in hannover several thousand people walked behind the coffin a Congress Took place and even its hidden agenda the question of violent action off a professor hamas your undefined objectivism is battering the subject to death not emancipating him. I believe these if your dreams that i dont know for a few months but if the demonstrations scheduled for tuesday is forbidden weve decided that immediately after the ban we will consult and be signed on fighting back against this the ones that vote their god and their own w. Batten cheated their hair prepare. Them for the fear i would like to ask head good the following the trail of king he has developed an ideology that was called utopian socialism back in eight hundred forty eight this was kill them on their own hotline and on him and that today must be called leftwing fascism at least i have reasons for calling it that lincoln first christmas and it was the you were. Isnt counterviolence just divine to could never really make up his mind about the violence issue. Around so if i were in latin america i would fight with a gun in my hands im not a latin america im in west germany where fighting to make sure it never reaches the point where we have to take up arms but thats not up to us were not in power and a few days later the marxists philosophy habit mark whos from berkeley california visited the Free University he gave this to you. Its a justification for violent resistance. But. I think the term violence covers two very Different Things institutionalized violence defending the status quo and the violence of resistance that necessarily remains illegal in relation to positive law. But nobody could define exactly when resistance became illegal rudy dodge who couldnt either but he dead to question the legitimacy of power. The next important stage in overcoming i was selfimposed isolation would be the project off expropriating this spring our cooperation. How do we work outside of the operators dr assumes that west berlin could become an International City of subversive action that we could implement free city plans and an altered form where we could turn west berlin into an International Subversive city against stalinism and fascism and in favor of supporting the third world through Central Europe fascist most. Need to. Hear the first serious strikes and west berliners where promising workers must support collecting funds and taking on not silvery functions in west berlin this will lead to an acute confrontation with structure reason and stresses we are determined not to stand by and watch criminal actions are at the very least incited to universities at worst supported and initiated. Didnt intervene we will support universities if they support us in putting a stop to events that prepare criminal actions that would mean there now and long been so in. The trial of activist fritz teufel started at the more beat District Court on the twenty seventh of november nine hundred sixty seven teufel was accused of throwing stuff. And the police set up a wide cordon around the courthouse seven hundred and fifty officers were on duty. On the other side were around six hundred demonstrators including the chair he instructed the protesters to tag down the barriers took part in self as the berlin press looked on. This is the image that spread around germany taking on the spring of press anyone who hadnt understood by then realize now that he was the ringleader of. The unshaven revolution and the violent provocateur the firebrand thats how he was presented on the front pages of the media. Good evening tonight we are broadcasting an interview with rudi recorded a few weeks ago second of it just a penny why dont you leave politics and wouldnt that be the greater mercy for the poor devils the people you envisage such terrible times for why dont you say we cant change it let it go. We cant change it were not hopeless idiots of history incapable of taking off eight into our own hands we can shape the world that has never been seen before characterized by an end to war and to among go all around the world the crucial question me they still recall quo. For me was always what was jesus christ really up to. How did you want to change his society and what means did he use. During these hours the worlds greatest revolutionary jesus christ died in the gasping orient the unknowing counterrevolution nailed him to the cross and now twenty four year old right on good friday christianity and revolution were one in his mind. Found his bible told must move as the theologian o