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Other ’68ers in West Berlin: Christian Democratic Students and the Cold War City
Other ’68ers in West Berlin: Christian Democratic Students and the Cold War City
Journal Article

Other ’68ers in West Berlin: Christian Democratic Students and the Cold War City

2017
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Many of the most iconic moments of Germany's “1968” took place in the walled confines of West Berlin, the emblematic Cold War city often referred to as the “capital of the revolt.” Most accounts portray the events in West Berlin as having been characterized by confrontations between the leftist student movement, on the one hand, and a conservative press and generally hostile, older, urban population, on the other. This article rethinks and refines existing historiographical narratives of the 1968 student movement in West Berlin, as well as of West Berlin's place in the student movement. It examines the actions and experiences of student activists in West Berlin, who rarely feature in the familiar narrative—namely, Christian Democratic activists, particularly those from the Association of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS). Using oral history interviews, memoirs, and a wide array of archival sources from German and US archives, the article sheds light on the background of some of the most important conservative players and discusses the manifold ways in which they engaged with the goals of the revolutionary left in the city. The analysis pays special attention to the effects that German division and life in West Berlin had on Christian Democratic activists, to the sources of their anti-Communism, and to their views about the US-led war in Vietnam, a major Cold War conflict that carried special resonance in the divided city. The article concludes that there were important (yet shifting and often porous) dividing lines in West Berlin's “1968” other than those that separated politicized students from an older and more conservative city leadership and population, a conclusion that calls for a modification of the familiar storyline that simply pits Rudi Dutschke and others on the left against the city's “establishment.” The article suggests that this has repercussions for interpretations of the student movement that center on generation. It argues, in short, that Christian Democratic students—activists who were, in effect, other ’68ers—helped to shape and were, in turn, shaped by the events that took place in West Berlin in 1968. Viele der zentralen Ereignisse der westdeutschen 68er-Bewegung spielten sich in West Berlin ab, einer Stadt, die wie kaum eine andere durch den Kalten Krieg geprägt wurde und die oft als “Hauptstadt der Revolte” bezeichnet wird. Die meisten Studien über “1968” in West-Berlin sehen die zentrale Konfliktlinie dieser Zeit zwischen der linken Studentenbewegung und einer älteren, konservativeren und anti-kommunistisch geprägten Stadtbevölkerung verlaufen, die den politisierten Studenten mehrheitlich feindlich gegenüberstand. Dieser Aufsatz hinterfragt dieses gängige historiographische Narrativ, indem er einerseits bisher wenig bekannte Aspekte der studentischen Mobilisierung in West Berlin um 1968 analysiert und andererseits den Ort West Berlins in der Geschichte der Studentenbewegung neu auslotet. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen die Erfahrungen und Handlungen einer Gruppe studentischer Aktivisten, die in der Historiographie bislang kaum belichtet worden ist—Aktivisten aus dem West-Berliner Ring Christlich-Demokratischer Studenten (RCDS). Basierend auf Oral History Interviews, autobiografischen Texten und einer Vielzahl zeitgenössischer Quellen aus deutschen und amerikanischen Archiven stellt der Aufsatz einige der Protagonisten dieser studentischen Hochschulgruppe vor und diskutiert ihr Verhältnis zur revolutionären linken Bewegung. Die Auswirkungen, die der Krieg in Vietnam, die deutsche Teilung, sowie die Existenz der Berliner Mauer auf die handelnden Akteure hatten, stehen im Fokus der Analyse. Es wird argumentiert, dass “1968” nicht nur eine bedeutende Trennlinie zwischen der politisierten Studentenschaft und der Berliner Bevölkerung verlief, sondern dass es ebenfalls signifikante politische Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der Studentenschaft gab, die bisher nicht eingehend untersucht worden sind. Der Artikel zeigt auf, dass die Beteiligung christdemokratischer Akteure an den Schlüsselereignissen der Studentenbewegung darüber hinaus etablierte generationelle Deutungen von “1968” in Frage stellt. Christdemokratische Aktivisten werden hier als “andere ‘68er” interpretiert, die von dieser Zeit ebenso geprägt wurden-und sie wiederum prägten—wie ihre linken Kommilitonen.

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