Spy Fired Shot That Changed West Germany

[RamboLiberal]

Source: NY Times

BERLIN — It was called “the shot that changed the republic.”

The killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer set off a left-wing protest movement and put conservative West Germany on course to evolve into the progressive country it has become today.

Now a discovery in the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, has upended Germany’s perception of its postwar history. The killer, Karl-Heinz Kurras, though working for the West Berlin police, was at the time also acting as a Stasi spy for East Germany.

It is as if the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University by the Ohio National Guard had been committed by an undercover KGB officer, though the reverberations seemed to have run deeper.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/world/europe/27germany.html?_r=1&hp

[napoleon_in_rags]

1. That's the problem with a reactionary response to acts of violence.

Its too easy to make somebody a puppet, attacking the wrong person. Its just too bad nobody mentioned this when our post 9/11 policy was being discussed. A Review of Gandhi's political actions is a great way to see somebody not manipulated by violence in action.