Terrorism

Dorothea Hauser

pp. 269-280

in: Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (eds), 1968 in Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

Although the political mobilization of students and workers throughout (Western) Europe in the late 1960s comprised violent forms of protest in some countries, the practical pursuit of concepts of armed struggle meant to trigger a revolutionary response by the masses proved to be—with the notable exception of West Germany and Italy—a brief and peripheral episode.