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  Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
German students were hence allowed to return to work very quickly, but the university system was not fully denazified.
When the miracle was over, however, the German economy had to be reorganized; with the forming of the national unity government in 1966 the government had all the power it needed to shape the economy the way it wanted: there was no opposition left to question their actions.
The students were strongly opposed to the idea of German emergency legislature which was due to be passed, which would allow the government to limit civil rights in the case of an emergency.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=German_student_movement   (2298 words)

  
  German student movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German students were hence allowed to return to work very quickly, but the university system was not fully denazified.
When the miracle was over, however, the German economy had to be reorganized; with the forming of the national unity government in 1966 the government had all the power it needed to shape the economy the way it wanted: there was no opposition left to question their actions.
The students were strongly opposed to the idea of German emergency legislature which was due to be passed, which would allow the government to limit civil rights in the case of an emergency.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_student_movement   (2322 words)

  
 Hohendahl
The radicalization of American German Studies during the early seventies in the wake of the student movement certainly helped the transition, but it would not have been strong enough to have an impact on the mainstream, had it not been for the language crisis of the early seventies.
German Departments by and large kept their curricula and their traditional self-understanding, but they introduced new courses in order to make their programs more interesting for a new generation of students that was no longer obliged to take basic language instruction.
German women's studies in the United States is an interesting example of the process of restructuring that took place during the eighties.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/6-1/html/hohendahl.html   (5470 words)

  
 Baader-Meinhof: Timeline pre-1968
At one protest, a pacifist student named Benno Ohnesorg was killed, giving the student movement their first contemporary martyred hero.
Students seem to be protesting every week--everything, from the war in Vietnam, to the Grand Coalition between the two major German political parties, to university policies, were used as excuses to march.
Many students head towards the office of the SDS (a prominent student organization) on the Ku-Damm; Ensslin is among them.
www.baader-meinhof.com /timeline/pre1968.html   (793 words)

  
 Baylor University || Modern Foreign Languages - German || FAQs
Students should practice and be familiar with der/die/das/die and ein/eine/ein/keine (gender) and know how it is affected by case; they should be introduced to adjective endings along with the cases.
Students should be able (with minor errors in pronunciation and grammar) to engage in more complex conversation, provide and obtain information and comparisons, express feelings and emotions for a minimum period of one minute.
Students should be able to talk about the difference between free time and Urlaub; health and illness to include differences within the health care systems; Multicultural situations; Environmental views and issues; Cultural events such as theater performances and films.
www.baylor.edu /German/index.php?id=25696   (4393 words)

  
 Listening Up By Heidi L. Whitesell
Students in Germany, on the other hand, had real reason to protest their unsatisfactory study conditions when they took to the streets last fall.
In October 1817 the movement reached its peak in the Wartburgfest, the 300th anniversary of the Reformation and of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813.
In university German departments this side of the big pond, East German film has become the hot topic, as evidenced by the first-ever DEFA conference held last October in Northampton, Massachusetts, and the establishment of a DEFA archive at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
www.germanlife.com /Archives/1998/9808_01.html   (8093 words)

  
 German at Georgetown University : GERM-558   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Among the central issues focusing the discussion will be the struggle of the 68ers with the generation of their parents, which was responsible for Nazi crimes.
The course investigates the often contradictory driving forces of this movement, the international protest movement against the Vietnam war, the Prague Spring, and the Cultural revolution in China.
Moreover, the seminar considers the theoretical background of the Student Movement, the wild mix of Freud, Marx, and the Frankfurt School, including the famous dispute on ‘red facism’ between Habermas, Dutschke, and Dahrendorf.
www3.georgetown.edu /departments/german/courses/germ558.html   (197 words)

  
 The German women's movement and ours by Renny Harrigan
The German student left of the 60s was a generation of young adults who had been strongly influenced by the need for critical thinking which accompanied their nation's reevaluation of its Nazi history.
University students' anti-authoritarian and critical tendencies exploded in a condemnation of Western imperialism, specifically of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and of the Cold War tactics of the allies towards East Germany and Eastern Europe.
The German student movement was as male-dominated as its U.S. counterpart.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC27folder/GermUSWmsMovt.html   (3778 words)

  
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I was a student at the University of Regensburg, Germany with a major in history and a minor in English and German when I had the opportunity to study abroad.
After studying German and History at the University of Northern Iowa, I moved to Minneapolis in 1996, where I worked with Evelyn S. Firchow interviewing Amish German speakers in southern Minnesota.
I graduated from the University of Arkansas with a BA in German and European Studies in 2005.
www.vanderbilt.edu /german/graduate/gradstudents   (3230 words)

  
 Activist Impulses: Campus Radicalism in the 1930s (Cohen)
The way to approach the student movement of the 30's is as a phase of the left-wing movement of the 30's, because that's actually what it was.
There was student activity of a political character in the universities and colleges in the 20's; it revolved chiefly around efforts to get U.S. support for the League of Nations and for the World Court.
Whereas in the Student LID and NSL you had hostility toward FDR and the New Deal as a sort of Kerensky type movement, which is what, of course, also the right wing considered it; now the evaluation changed and you found that the Communists were becoming militant exponents of the deal.
newdeal.feri.org /students/lash.htm   (6306 words)

  
 Jewish Voices Sample Stories
German reactions to my Jewishness would range from awkward philo-Semitism to cautious anti-Semitism, depending not so much on the person I was dealing with as on the circumstances of our encounter.
Although he was active in the German student movement in the sixties, he has made clear his disenchantment <%2>with the German Left's position on Israel and with its anti-<%0>Semitism disguised as "anti-Zionism." In "Our Kampf," Broder documents the German peace movement's behavior during the Gulf War.
The "girl" of the title is the narrator's non-Jewish German girlfriend, who has no sympathy at all with her boyfriend's sense of duty toward an army in general and toward the Israeli army in particular.
www.catbirdpress.com /firstchaps/gj.htm   (3772 words)

  
 History of West Germany (1949 - 1990) - Federal Republic of Germany, FRG, BRD
The West German military would be subject to complete EDC control, but the other EDC member states (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) would cooperate in the EDC while maintaining independent control of their own armed forces.
Demonstrations and protests grew in number, and in 1967 the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot in the head and killed by the police.
November 1989, the unification was quickly arranged: formally, the Federal Republic of Germany grew by annexing the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.
www.germannotes.com /hist_west_overview.shtml   (1358 words)

  
 German Literature - Continental Book Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Chapters on the German literature in exile, the literature of the DDR, Austria and Switzerland are included.
Explanations and interpretations of their works included assist the student in understanding women in literature from the Romantic period to the Feminist movement.
German culture has been central to Europe, and it has contributed the transforming spirit of Lutheran religion, the technology of printing as a medium of democracy, the soulfulness of Romantic philosophy, the structure of higher education, and the tradition of liberal socialism to the essential character of modern American life.
www.continentalbook.com /catalog/german/grliterature.html   (1441 words)

  
 Germany - The Student Movement and Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Inspired by the student movement in the United States and by the international movement opposing the war in Vietnam, as well as by rising opposition to the traditional administration of German universities, students organized protest movements at a number of German universities in the late 1960s.
The student protest movement had little support among the population, however, and was finally absorbed by the established parties.
In 1989 they were responsible for the murder of Alfred Herrhausen, a top executive of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, and in 1991 for the murder of Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, president of the Treuhandanstalt, the agency that managed the privatization of property in the former GDR (see Unification and Its Aftermath, ch.
countrystudies.us /germany/64.htm   (402 words)

  
 International Crisis Group - Joschka Fischer
Fischer entered politics in 1968 at the height of the German student movement.
From 1987 to 1991, Fischer was Head of the Green Party Parliamentary Fraction in the State Legislature of Hesse and from 1991 to 1994 he served a second tenure as Hessian Minister of the Environment and Energy and held the additional portfolios of Federal Affairs and Deputy Minister President.
Following the re-election of the Green Party to the German Bundestag in 1994, Joschka Fischer became co-chairman of the Greens’ federal parliamentary fraction.
www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=4231   (388 words)

  
 German   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Course topics are the political and ideological consolidation of a German nation in the nineteenth century; intersections of the construct of nation with Germany's imaginary others; challenges posed to national identity by social, political, and intellectual developments.
Topics include the political legacies of Nazism, East German communism, and the Student Movement of 1968; the role of religion in public life; German in a united Europe; immigration and changing concepts of Germanness; changing attitudes towards family, gender, and sexuality.
Students should identify the course in which they choose to do their project no later than the third term of their junior year and submit a preliminary topic and bibliography.
www.knox.edu /x7798.xml   (1321 words)

  
 Student activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A student demonstration in Mexico City ended in a storm of bullets on the night of October 2, 1968, an event known as the Tlatelolco massacre.
Even in Pakistan, students took to the streets to protest changes in education policy, and on November 7 a college student was shot dead as police opened fire on a demonstration.
One highlight of this period was Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a student-led organization that focused on schools as a social agent that simultaneously oppresses and potentially uplifts society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Student_activism   (2605 words)

  
 German Catholic Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Ronge urged German Catholic women to raise themselves to a level of parity with their bretheren in order to be able to participate fully in the new order.
It was to be a unifying, non-discriminatory body to further the education of the women of Hamburg, German Catholic congregations, and the German states.
As artisan groups and free congregations throughout German lands were being dissolved, the Hamburg women embraced the political role which had been thrust upon them by the failure of the 1848 revolutions.
www.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/rz/womgcat.htm   (1580 words)

  
 Letter from a German Student
Today I heard from your movement "Not in our name" and read your pledge and the statement of conscience from www.nion.us.
In German media it often seems that the American people as a whole stands like one man behind the government, blindly waving little flags, while the government itself exports the sorrow America had to suffer to other nations.
Most people at my age (25) here that I know share your views and I am sure there are many in the US as well so there is always hope for the future and a better world.
www.notinourname.net /archive/other_statements/german_student_ltr_sept02.html   (388 words)

  
 College of Wooster: Academic Programs
It is not unusual for students who study and travel abroad to develop interests that are later explored in depth in their Independent Study (I.S.) projects.
German and History double major Colleen McFarland wrote on German medicine and doctors in novels and films of the 1930s and 40s.
Jessica Riviere, a German/International Relations double major, spent a semester studying in Berlin and wrote her senior I.S. on the student movement in Germany.Women’s Studies and German major Leah Suter spent a semester abroad and visited women’s archives to write her I.S. on the possibility of lesbian writing.
www.wooster.edu /academics/programs/german/is.php   (218 words)

  
 The German Anti-War Movement, 1943 by David Rosinger
In The German Opposition to Hitler, Hans Rothfels reports that a Gestapo officer testified in 1939 that over 2,000 boys and girls were organized into opposition to the Third Reich.
In a speech to university students in Munich, the Gauleiter of Bavaria took female students to task for wasting their time in the classroom when they should be performing their duty to bring forth sons for the Fatherland.
The German military reversal at the Battle of Stalingrad, which left as many as 400,000 Wehrmacht soldiers dead, convinced the pamphleteers that the public and students in particular would be receptive to an end to the war and a change in German leadership.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig7/rosinger2.html   (1162 words)

  
 The German Student Movement
These words were penned by Ulrike Meinhof in 1968 and poignantly illustrate the turbulent atmosphere of student unrest prevalent in the late 1960's in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Organized by the SDS (Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund), the SPD's mouthpiece at the university level, these peaceful demonstrations quickly escalated to more aggressive counter attacks in response to the shooting death of student Benno Ohnesorg by police in June 1967, and the murder attempt on Rudi Dutschke in April 1968.
The fervor with which the German authorities sought to halt leftist political activity in the late 60's to mid-1970's culminated in 1976 with the so-called Berufsverbot policy, which allowed for background checks into the political activities of prospective applicants for civil servant positions, including educators.
www.public.asu.edu /~dgilfill/dreamwork.html   (394 words)

  
 Berlin, Germany
Although it was the residence of the Prussian kings, Berlin's population did not greatly expand until the 19th century, mainly after becoming the capital of the German Empire in 1871.
In the 1960s, West Berlin became one of the centers of the German student movement.
West Berlin was especially popular with young German left-wing radicals, as young men living in West Berlin were exempted from the obligatory military service required in West Germany proper: the Kreuzberg district became especially well-known for its high concentration of young radicals.
www.creekin.net /c308-n71-berlin-germany.html   (3190 words)

  
 The World Resistance Movement
And, as then, there is a worldwide resistance movement struggling to overcome the fascist powers that have taken over many nations in their insane drive for world dominance.
With sheepish submissiveness the German people accepted that, as a result of the fire, each one of them lost what little personal freedom and dignity was guaranteed by the constitution; as though it followed as a necessary consequence.
A resistance movement is a non-military group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to fighting an invader in an occupied country through either the use of physical force or nonviolence.
www.hermes-press.com /world_resistance.htm   (3859 words)

  
 University of Leeds - Department of German
His research focusses on the complex relationship between political, utopian and fantastic thought, with a particular interest in Romanticism, the German Student Movement, German Science Fiction, and in the works of Kurd Lasswitz, Hermann Hesse, and Thomas Mann.
The representation of the German Student Movement and left-wing German terrorism in recent literature", at the Cultural Memory of Left-Wing Terrorism conference in Cardiff (09/05)
A monograph on the literary representation of the German Student Movement
www.leeds.ac.uk /german/staff/ingo_cornils.htm   (953 words)

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