The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany

This is a history of 1968 written from a new perspective-that of center-right student activists in West Germany.Based on oral history interviews and new archival sources, it examines the ideas, experiences, and repertoires of center-right students in this age of protest.Writing these activists back into the history of 1968 and its afterlives -including student protest, cultural revolt, internationalism, debates about left-wing violence and the terror of the Red Army Faction, the memory wars of the 1980s and beyond - reveals that this was a broader, more versatile, and, ultimately, more consequential phenomenon than the traditionally narrower focus on a left-wing minority allows. Other '68ers demonstrates that we need a more nuanced history of the 1968 generation and of generational conflict during these years.Student activists comprised individuals from across the political spectrum, who often had very different ideas about what kind of a society they envisaged and how to address the s