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weakening Kiesinger I would be supporting the Social
Democratic campaign and giving Brandt a bigger chance.
March 12.
Kiesinger was paying an official visit to Paris. I had invited four friends to
come from Berlin. Along with me they were to address the Sorbonne students on
Thursday, the 13th.
On Wednesday evening, as the five of us were going
out into rue de l'Alboni, a dozen or so plainclothesmen descended upon us and
took us away in three automobiles. I was booked at the la Muette police station
and set free around midnight, but my friends were taken to General
Intelligence. On the following day they were put into their car and escorted to
the frontier.
All day long Serge and I were accompanied by policemen
stationed outside our apartment house in two cars, one on avenue President
Kennedy, the other on rue de l'Alboni. We engaged them in conversation and they
showed us our pictures, which many Paris policemen had, doubtless out of fear
that we would commit some outrage against the Chancellor.
In the
evening, still followed, I spoke at a conference organized by leftist groups at
the Hotel Moderne on two general topics: Kiesinger and S.S.-General Heinz
Lammerding.
The reporters for German papers who were in Kiesinger's
party attended the meeting and took note of the hostility of the French toward
the Chancellor.
After speaking in Waldshut on March 22, and in
Constance on the 23rd, I began the Easter marches on the 28th. Easter is the
traditional time for protesting the issue of nuclear armament for Germany, and
I spoke in Hamburg, Duisberg, and Essen.
April. We had been
working like truckhorses. For over forty-eight hours I had had almost no sleep,
and for ten days I had been typing the German text of Kiesinger or Crafty
Fascism. Extradienst, a news service whose premises served as a
meeting place for West Berlin radicals, undertook the printing of this 100-page
pamphlet, three thousand copies of which were circulated on the eve of my
hearing before the Court of Appeals.
It was the weapon I needed for
that trial. The press promised to give it a lot of space and to indicate in
editorials that Kiesinger had not yet published the documentation on his Nazi
past that he had promised on April 22, 1968. On the other hand, I, the slapper,
had spoken out and demonstrated just what that past of his was,
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