Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (Radical Perspectives)

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Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (Radical Perspectives)

Quinn Slobodian

Language: English

Pages: 320

ISBN: 0822351846

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who arrived on West German campuses in large numbers in the early 1960s. They were the first to mobilize German youth in protest against acts of state violence and injustice perpetrated beyond Europe and North America. The activism of the foreign students served as a model for West German students, catalyzing social movements and influencing modes of opposition to the Vietnam War. In turn, the West Germans offered the international students solidarity and safe spaces for their dissident engagements. This collaboration helped the West German students to develop a more nuanced, empathetic understanding of the Third World, not just as a site of suffering, poverty, and violence, but also as the home of politicized individuals with the capacity and will to speak in their own names.

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Der Strafsache gegen Mahmood Rassekh wegen Verstoßes gegen das Versammlungsgesetzes,” May 13, 1964, BArch, B166/1173. 117. “Niederschrift über die Besprechung mit den Ausländerreferenten der Länder im BMI am 24. Februar 1961,” BArch, B106/47380. 118. Raab to the BMI (March 1, 1961). 119. “Vorschlag des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums des Innern für die Tagesordnung der Innenministerkonferenz am 15–16. Februar 1962 in Berlin,” BArch, B106/47380. 120. Ibid. 121. Chin, “Imagining a German.

January 31, 1964, BArch, B106/47386. 134. Deutscher Bundestag, 110. Sitzung, February 5, 1964, printed paper 5044, ibid. 135. Reinhard Schlagintweit, Division IB4, to Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, July 8, 1963, PAAA, B82, Bd. 520. 136. Handwritten note on the reverse side of Willy Grote, Niedersachsen Ministry of the Interior, to the BMI, on “Versammlungen ausländischer Vereinigungen,” April 14, 1963, BArch, B106/31348. Because the telegram was addressed to a member of the BMI and was found.

Evidence, however, that he was acting on the Stasi’s orders when he shot Ohnesorg: Mechthild Küpper, “Stasi-Mitarbeiter erschoss Benno Ohnesorg,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 21, 2009. 95. Ohnesorg’s Chilean friend Alex Schubert was an exchange student in West Berlin, who claims he was “turned into a leftist” by his conversations with Ohnesorg before his death. As an economist, Schubert became part of Salvador Allende’s government when he returned to Chile and was imprisoned after Allende.

Partisan war had been available in Germany in an East German publication since 1962 and were widely reproduced from 1967 on, legally and illegally: Debray, Revolution in der Revolution?; Guevara, Der Partisanenkrieg. See, e.g., Guevara, Botschaft an die Völker der Welt; Guevara, Kleine revolutionäre Bibliothek 1. A reading list for the West Berlin SDS’s “Third World” and the Metropoles project group compiled by Dutschke in August 1967 included Guevara’s “Man and Socialism in Cuba” (1966), along.

SDS, calling Tshombe a “murderer” and declaring its refusal “to cooperate in the exploitation and oppression of other peoples.”89 While Dutschke and Rabehl were not part of the SDS at the time, the socialist student group had organized extensively in preparation for Tshombe’s arrival in cooperation with other leftist student groups at the FU and in the African Students Union.90 The SDS did not use the morally charged language of murder favored by the Anschlag-Gruppe. Instead, it released a long.

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