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| Rudi Dutschke speaking at the Vietnam War Congress. photo: Ullstein Bild |
On April 11th, 1968, Rudi Dutschke, a leader of West German left-wing protests, was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. He was shot in the head outside of the Socialist German Student Union (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, or SDS) offices on the Kurfürstendamm in West Berlin. Dutschke survived after emergency surgery, but would suffer seizures for the rest of his life and would die of his brain injuries 11 years later.
Sources:
Ziviler Protest 1968 Kaum ein Jahr war so bizarr und ernst zugleich, by Maritta Adam-Tkalec. In Berliner Zeitung (12 Feb 2018)
Rudi Dutschke, Wikipedia
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