Dossier: 1968 - A Critical Turning-Point

Only a detailed political analysis can reveal the extent to which 1968 – a year that characterized an era and made a break with all that had gone before – was embedded in global developments which have continued to cause ripples right up to the present day and still haven't been entirely deciphered. By Claus LeggewieMore ...

On the cultural pages of German newspapers since the 1990s over-40s have been blaming the 1968 student movement and their allegedly boundless permissiveness for almost every evil to befall Germany – be it Germany’s poor performance in the PISA tests or childlessness. Now 40 years later this ritualistic fervour seems to be dying down. By Christiane GrefeMore ...

 “More than 100 companies are currently mass-producing 150 types of merchandising bearing the faces or the names of the four Beatles: stockings, balloons, pullovers, underpants and shirts, shoes, hats, trousers, jackets, biscuit wrappers, lemonade glasses and scarves, egg cups, dolls, packets of chewing gum, brooches and rings – and of course the original Beatles wigs.” (Lamprecht 1965, p. 100)  By Klaus FarinMore ...