Ostensibly motivated by a lack of English texts covering the impact of the "68er generation" on the unique challenges to and consolidation of German democracy before and after unification, journalist Hans Kundnani offers thirteen chapters plus a very brief epilogue on a new generation "torn between the dream of a socialist Utopia and the nightmare of the Holocaust" as an all-or-nothing proposition (11). Many have even been issued at the expense of the federal government through the Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung, including a collection of protest songs as "curricular materials" for classroom use. The movement's fortieth anniversary saw a rash of films and publications, some more academic than others, revisiting that period. Thirty years stood between the extraordinary turbulence precipitated by the so-called "68er generation" and the installation of Germany's first Red-Green government, headed by former radical activists Gerhard Schroder and Joschka Fischer, as chancellor and foreign minister, respectively. Hans Kundnani, Utopia or Auschwitz-Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)
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