Demonstrations after the assassination attempt of Dutschke

Violent clashes between the police and the demonstrators on 12 April 1968 in Berlin. A wave of protest demonstrations has triggered the assassination attempt on Berlin's SDS ideologist Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke was shot down and critically injured by the 23-year-old worker Josef Erwin Bachmann on April 11,1968 in front of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) office on Kurf��rstendamm in Berlin. The demonstrations, which lasted the whole Easter weekend, were mainly directed against buildings of the Axel Springer publishing house, which is described by the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) as the "centre of the systematic smear campaign against political minorities". usage worldwide