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Dispersed & Dismayed. Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger warned the students that violence would be met with counter-measures-and it was. In Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and other German cities where demonstrators tried to blockade the regional printing plants of Publisher Axel Springer, whose papers are critical of the student leftists, police asked them to disperse, then went to work on them with bruising water cannon and truncheons. The students were not used to seeing their own blood flow, and many, moreover, were deeply shocked by the death from rioter-thrown missiles of Associated Press Photographer Klaus Frings, 32, and Munich Student...
...singled out as the symbol of all that is bad in West Germany is a tall, silver-haired publisher who commutes between his six homes in Europe in a private jet, directs his $200 million press empire from atop a glass skyscraper directly alongside the Wall in West Berlin. Springer, 55, is sternly antiCommunist, assertively German, and a strong supporter of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. He owns 15 magazines and newspapers, including the popular Bild-Zeitung (literally, picture paper), that account for 31% of West Germany's circulation of weekday publications, 88% on Sundays. Reflecting the disdain...
Ominous Threat. Chanting their war cry, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh!", students, many of whom wore protective helmets and carried heavy clubs, went on rampages in virtually every major German city. Almost everywhere they went, they blockaded and sometimes stoned the local printing plants of conservative Publisher Axel Springer, whose newspapers, notably the mass-circulation Bild-Zeitung, have denounced their restive leftist tendencies. The students also broke store windows, erected barricades across streets and fought bitter pitched battles with police. The violence was worst of all in West Berlin, where a mob of 3,000 young revolutionaries broke almost every...
Trial for Fascism. At the annual Frankfurt fall book fair, 200 chanting students gleefully tore up Springer books and magazines. Oblivious to similar acts in the Nazi era, left-wing Erlangen University students staged a burning of Springer publications. A group of liberal writers declared they will never again write for a Springer paper and urged their publishers to withhold advertising from Springer publications. When Springer went to give a speech at the Hamburg Overseas Club recently, he had to slip in a side door while five squads of riot police protected him from angry pickets, whose banners declared: "Never...
...Springer, to be sure, makes an inviting target. With eight newspapers and six magazines, he is West Germany's biggest publisher. He controls 31% of the circulation of all of Germany's daily newspapers, a percentage few other Western publishers come close to matching.* His rather sensational Bild Zeitung, published in Hamburg with a Berlin edition, has a circulation of 4,446,000, largest of any paper on the Continent. His more thoughtful Die Welt (circ. 280,000) is one of Germany's most influential papers. Its Sunday edition, along with Springer's other paper, Bild...