International Vietnam Congress Opens at Technical University in West Berlin

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Congress Poster.
The Congress was a major event of the German student movement in the 1960s, with some 5,000 participants and 44 delegations from 14 different countries in attendence. 

Organizers of the event were the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) of West Berlin and the Brussels Conference, a loose association of various left-wing youth organizations from Western Europe.  The main speakers were Rudi Dutschke and Karl Dietrich Wolff.

The central theme of the Congress was resistance against the US-led Vietnam War in particular and Western imperialism in general.

The Congress ended with a declaration of solidarity with the Vietnamese FNL (Vietcong) and a massive street demonstration with more than 10,000 people joining in.

Dutschke speaking at the congress.  © Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Sources:

Internationaler Vietnamkongress, Wikipedia

Rudi Dutschke at a Vietnam Congress (February 17, 1968), German History Docs


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