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Policemen fight with water canons and clubs against demonstrators in West Berlin, April 12, 1968. A series of violent demonstrations followed the attack on Rudi Dutschke, who was shot on April 11, 1968 by Josef Bachmann, a house painter, in broad daylight on Kurfuerstendamm Street. Dutschke survived severely injured, but died on December 24, 1979 as a late result of the shooting. He was the leader of the German socialist student association 'Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund', and was an organizer and theorist of the student protest actions. (KEYSTONE/DPA/Giehr)