Word: kulturkrankheit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that many intellectuals wondered if there was much hope for democracy in a country that must look to such detached youths for its future leaders. The intellectuals are wondering no more. Instead, some are busily trying to dampen the unrest, which they regard as evidence of a West German Kulturkrankheit, a cultural sickness that amounts to a kind of spiritual measles. Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt and other Social Democratic Party chiefs are equally alarmed. Two weeks ago, they met in Bonn for more than six hours with student leaders, but the talk did not narrow the widening gulf between older...
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