Abstract
This essay challenges scholarly claims that the German student movement represented the emergence of latent fascist and anti-Semitic tendencies, especially when its target was the US war in Vietnam. Instead, the author argues that Jewish voices were prominent in the German Sixties through the writings of émigré intellectuals such as Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse, as well as the poet Erich Fried, who inspired student activists even as they took disparate positions on the war. Moreover, Jewish Americans who were strongly represented in the American New Left groups served as a model for German student activists. Rather than anti-Semitism, we see cosmopolitanism at work in 1968.
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