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1.   Procession of University Professors (c. 1960)
In 1948, the Free University of Berlin was founded in the neighborhood of Dahlem (part of the Western zone) to protest the Communist influence on teaching at Humboldt University (located in the Soviet....
Procession of University Professors (c. 1960)
2.   Against Racial Hatred / No Nazis in the Lecture Halls (January 1960)
After the dedication of the rebuilt Cologne Synagogue in September 1959, there was a spike in incidences of neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic graffiti throughout the Federal Republic, with 470 cases being....
Against Racial Hatred / No Nazis in the Lecture Halls (January 1960)
3.   "Study as a Socialist, Live as a Socialist!": A Seminar Room at Humboldt University, East Berlin (1961)
In January 1959, the “Brigade of Socialist Work Competition” was announced under the slogan, “Work, Learn, and Live as a Socialist.” As a “mass initiative of working people,” this “socialist competition”....
4.   "Ten Commandments for the New Socialist Man" (1963)
Walter Ulbricht proclaimed the “Ten Commandments of Socialist Morality” at the SED's 5th Party Congress in July 1958. They were supposed to embody the principles....
"Ten Commandments for the New Socialist Man" (1963)
5.   Theodor Adorno (left) and Heinrich Böll on the Occasion of Böll’s "Lectures in Poetics" at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main (May 1964)
Theodor Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, and Herbert Marcuse (who had been teaching at Berkeley....
Theodor Adorno (left) and Heinrich Böll on the Occasion of Böll’s
6.   The Completion of the First Phase of Construction and the Opening of Ruhr University in Bochum (June 30, 1965)
On July 18, 1961, the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to build Ruhr University in Bochum, the first new university founded in the Federal Republic. A festive opening ceremony was held....
The Completion of the First Phase of Construction and the Opening of Ruhr University in Bochum (June 30, 1965)
7.   Lecture at the University of Bonn (1967)
While the number of university students increased during the 1960s, faculty size at universities remained relatively constant. The overcrowded lecture halls that inevitably resulted were indeed a....
Lecture at the University of Bonn (1967)
8.   Student Strikes in Frankfurt am Main (1968)
After Hessian Minister of Culture Ernst Schütte issued a decree stating that teacher training at universities would be shortened to six semesters, students in the education department at Johann Wolfgang....
Student Strikes in Frankfurt am Main (1968)
9.   A Noncommissioned Officer in the National People's Army Gives Firearms Instruction in a GDR School (1975)
In the Honecker era, “socialist military education” assumed additional importance. Through the sponsorship of the People’s National Army, the militarization of society started as early as kindergarten.....
A Noncommissioned Officer in the National People's Army Gives Firearms Instruction in a GDR School (1975)
10.   The Work of Adult Education Centers, West Berlin (1977)
In the mid-1960s, there was a paradigm shift – a so-called realistic turn – in West German adult education. Courses emphasizing occupational training assumed greater significance and were regarded....
The Work of Adult Education Centers, West Berlin (1977)
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