Images - Politics between Immobility and Change

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11.	Bonn Demonstration against the Emergency Laws – I (May 11, 1968) At the end of May 1968, during the government of the Grand Coalition, the Bundestag passed the so-called Emergency Laws in the face of strong extra-parliamentary opposition. These laws curtailed....
12.	Bonn Demonstration against the Emergency Laws – II ( May 11, 1968) Supporters of the Emergency Laws argued that in crisis situations, a “defensible democracy”....
13.	Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Willy Brandt (1969) The Grand Coalition from 1966 to 1969 was a temporary “marriage of convenience” between the two great national parties, the CDU/CSU and the SPD. This photograph shows Chancellor Kurt....
14.	Walter Ulbricht and Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow (c. 1971) At the end of the 1960s, a self-confident Walter Ulbricht claimed that other socialist countries could take the GDR as an example. He also strove to create....
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