Opposition, Control & Consent Flashcards
Unis created 1964
5
Students strike when uni banned speaking against Vietnam war
May 1965
Anti war protest
Feb 1966
2,500 Free University students
Kommune 1
1967
APO
wanted to make FRG a more open and tolerant society
SDS
Student wing of SPD
Became vocal opposition group against Grand Coalition in 1966
Rudi Dutschke shot
April 1968
SDS membership 1968
80,000
% of Berliners who opposed student violence
92%
% of working class Berliners who opposed student violence
78%
% of people who sympathised w/ RAF before violence against people
15%
Deaths in German Autumn
28
Bank robberies in German Autumn
30
Baader arrest
Early 1972
RAF dissolution
1998
Number of Neo-Nazi groups in early 60s
around 70
NPD success in Hesse
Won 8 out of 100 seats in Oct 1966
NPD vote in 1969
4.3%
Emergency laws failed to pass the Bundestag in …
1958
1960
1963
Emergency laws passed
May 1968
Gov action 1972
150,000 police to track down members of RAF
Employment Ban Law - banned radicals from public sector employment
Gov action 1973
Bundestag implemented range of more strict measures against terrorists
Gov action in 1977
Law Banning Contract passed - prevented terrorist prisoners contacting each other in jail
FRG had more than 6000 under surveillance
Nuremberg Trials
20th Nov 1945 - Oct 1946
12 Nazis received death sentences
7 given prison time
US held trials of lower-level officials
489 trials
of 1,672 defendants, 1416 found guilty
Fragebogen
Surveys
Americans sifted through 1,600,000
374,000 former Nazis lost their posts
Number of Nazi doctors in Bonn
102 out of 112
Allies set up local tribunals
March 1946
FRG ends all investigations into Nazi past of its civil servants
1949
Reinstatement Act
1951
Many former Nazis joined civil service and judiciary
Diplomatic Corps
1951
43% of members were SS
17% were Gestapo
Number of former Nazi party members in Adenauer’s gov
39 in 1949
Vote Participation
78.49% in 1949
91.11% in 1972
Banned KPD replaced w/ communist DKP
1968
Never had an active membership of more than 50,000
Arrival of Green party in Bundestag
1983
CDU/CSU vote increase 1949-57
31% to 50.2%
SPD vote increase 1949-57
29.2% to 31.8%
RAF membership
Never had more than 60 people
Number of flats built 1949-61
6 million
Strike days per 1000 employees 1965-69
6 in Germany
156 in UK
492 in US
Strike days per 1000 employees 1970-74
49 in Germany
585 in UK
531 in US