Having read this thread yesterday, I was cruising through the morning paper whilst drinking my coffee when I found this:

“Spy Fired Shot That Changed West Germany” by Nicholas Kulish in the NYTimes on May 27, 2009

“The killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer in West Berlin 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.”

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So all those politically correct Germans were victims of dezinformatsiya. Fascinating.