http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627342,00.htmlThe truth about the gunshot that changed Germany. On June 2, 1967, a West Berlin police officer named Karl-Heinz Kurras killed a leftist protester named Benno Ohnesorg. This killing galvanized the West German student movement, and led to a decade of protesting and actual armed conflict (notably by the
Red Army Faction, aka the Baader-Meinhof gang [
previously]). It turns out that the police officer was a member of the Stasi, the infamous East German secret police. [
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