“Turn illness into a weapon,” proclaimed the manifesto of the SPK, or Socialist Patients’ Collective. To heal the patient, the patient had to heal the system first – by violent means, if necessary. Several doctors at Heidelberg University who had taken part in Hitler’s T4 euthanasia programme were still employed at the institution. The university reacted by banning the Socialist Student Union, whose ranks flooded the SPK, and then by firing Huber. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Student demonstration in Heidelberg in the 70s, before scuffles break out between protesters and police.

Source: The Guardian February 22, 2018 09:56 UTC