1. Divergent Fates History 323 / April 24, 2013

2. A radical commune in Hamburg, 1968

3. Kurt-Georg Kiesinger: an ex-Nazi as West German Chancellor, 1966-69

4. Beate Klarsfeld: shouting Kiesinger down, April 1968; slapping the Chancellor, November 1968

5. Protesters outside the “Amerika-Haus,” West Berlin

6. Anti-Vietnam demo in Berlin “Class struggle, not war among peoples” “Amis out of Indochina” “For the complete victory of the [Vietnamese] Liberation Front”

7. The “Vietnam Congress” in Berlin, February 1968

8. Rudi Dutschke, charismatic leader of the SDS (Socialist German Student League)

9. The attack on Rudi Dutschke, April 1968

10. Explosive anger at the police

11. Protesters compare the BILD-Zeitung of 1968 with Nazi anti-Semitic papers from 1938

12. Workers in Frankfurt, May 1968

13. Sociology students on strike, Frankfurt, December 1968

14. Outside Willy Brandt’s hotel, Erfurt, East Germany, March 1970

15. Brandt at the Warsaw Ghetto monument, December 1970

16. Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize, December 1971

17. “Horsepower” during the 1973 energy crisis

18. Empty highways near Cologne (Sunday traffic bans, late 1973)

19. Helmut Schmidt, a “manager” as chancellor (1974-1982)

20. Schmidt & Giscard: the “Franco-German motor”

21. Frankfurt’s “sponti” scene (here: strikes against higher ticket prices for public transit in 1974)

22. “Occupied” house in Frankfurt, 1979

23. “No atomic weapons in East and West”

24. Helmut Kohl (right) congratulated by Helmut Schmidt, October 1982

25. An “Easter March” in the Ruhr, 1983 (No new atomic rockets in our country – fight atomic death)

26. Atomic power? No, thank you.

27. Protestors at Brokdorf, Lower Saxony, 1976

28. The police presence at Brokdorf (after earlier violent clashes)

29. The greens enter the Bundestag, 1983 (here with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, looking perplexed)

30. Demonstrations against the construction of a new runway at the Frankfurt airport (1984)

31. Joschka Fischer sworn in as “Minister of the Environment” in Hesse (December 1985)

32. Inside the stores: the GDR claimed to have all these goods available…

33. … but often people had to wait in line for groceries, shoes, and other necessities

34. Kitchen and living room of an East German apartment, ca. 1963

35. Socialist modern: the “tin can” building in Leipzig (building from 1908; façade renovated 1966-68)

36. The TV Tower in East Berlin (built 1965-69)

37. Close-up of the TV tower