(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
Orientering April 1968
Both Dutschke and he who tried to murder him were taken to Westend University Hospital. This hospital is known for having the city's most capable doctors and excellent equipment, but it is also herostrally famous in student circles, because staff at one of the departments long refused to treat severely injured students after the 2 demonstration. June last year. Police officers with scrubs were bandaged before students who bleed from the head could be brought to X-rays. But this time the treatment was different.
An acquaintance, a doctor at Westend Hospital and who assisted during the five-hour operation of Dutschke, reports that this operation is one of the most perfect she has experienced. Almost all of the professors at the hospital were finally gathered about Rudi Dutschke. A life-threatening projectile that sat quite deep in the brain on the right side was removed first, then the next one shot from the front through the cheek, which if it had reached a few millimeters further would have cost Dutschke the sight, then a more harmless projectile that put in the shoulder area.
It must be considered a wonder that Rudi Dutschke came to consciousness already the next morning and has a great chance of surviving the attack. The assailant, the 23 year old Josef Bachmann from Peine near Braunschweig is also recovering after a lengthy operation.
The jumping monopoly – creates anger against the leftist.
When should we find that political reports from West Berlin are anything but hospital reports? asked a discussion participant during a protest meeting at the Technical University on Good Friday. And no one can answer, too much indicates that Berlin is meeting its hot summer.
After it became known to students on Thursday that Rudi Dutschke was fatally wounded, they immediately turned their protest to the institutions of this community that have participated in the rally against politically active left-wing radicals in West Germany and West Berlin. The protest was first and foremost directed at the Springer press, which has systematically portrayed Dutschke and his friends as terrorists and communists, against the Berlin Senate and Mayor Schütz (who in a speech to the public in February said: "You should see these types. should pay close attention to their faces. ”) The protest also turned to radio stations Rias and Sender Freies Berlin, who almost never let representatives of the extra-parliamentary opposition get in front of the microphone.
The assailant's "personality". Springerblad "Bild" and government officials are unaware that Dutschke's supporters have shown no further interest in the assailant's personality. Bild writes side-by-side about the 23-year-old's criminal past (unemployment and theft), others are particularly interested in his self-painted Hitler picture on the wall of the boys' home in Peine, and Springerpressen and Kiesinger rush to emphasize that Josef Bachmann was and strangely. However, the students choose to see the assailant as a product of the heat that is constantly being driven against Communists and against the extra-parliamentary opposition in this country. The students' interpretation can be seen as a counterpart to the views of Ulrike Marie Meinhoff, editor of the recently published "Concrete" magazine, which underpinned her convincing interpretation of the fate of child murderer Bartsch.
Willy Brandt's son among the arrested.
From the moment the attack on Dutschke became known, Berlin has been the scene of constantly new so-called illegal demonstrations. On Thursday night, a large crowd of students tried to storm the Springer publishing house. All routes on the ground floor were crushed, 22 of the group's cars were damaged, 5 of them total. On Friday morning, a large demonstration train that was to lead to the town hall in Schøneberg was already split on Kudamm by police water cannons and troop concentrations. When protesters in smaller groups arrived at the back of the town hall, they were met by an unparalleled police call. The same thing happened at Rias. At night, an attempt was made to prevent the delivery of the Springer newspapers by blocking the streets of Springerhuset with abandoned cars in the middle of the roadway. Wolfgang Neyss' fat Mercedes stood first. The cars were immediately removed by the police, and the action was thus far unsuccessful. But the next day Springer barricaded his house with strong barbed wire barriers. Many wonder if the barbed wire balls were delivered by the same western firm that served so well when the Berlin Wall was built. The similarity is too great. On Saturday and Sunday, there were new clashes between police and student protesters. About 350 were arrested, including students Langhans and Teuffel and Willy Brandt's son Peter.
In the Auditorium Maximum of the Technical University, discussions are held day and night on the immediate situation and on any new actions. The rector, however, threatens to ban meeting activities if banned demonstrations are planned. But what demonstrations are actually allowed in Berlin at the moment? When will SDS (German Soc. Stud.) Be banned? How long will the Freie Universität Berlin be kept open?
From "grateful Berliners". From the hospital, we hear that both Rudi Dutschke and Josef Bachmann have received a sea of flowers, Rudi from home and abroad, Josef Bachmann mainly from "grateful Berliners".
