Dutschke: 'Target of the right wing' if returned

THE PUBLICATIONS of the German press millionaire Axel Springer had played a 'significant' role in setting Rudi Dutschke up as a 'symbolic figure for attack' an ex-Mayor of W Berlin told a London appeals tribunal yesterday.

Mayor of the city during the student demonstrations there in 1966, Henrich Albertz told the tribunal that if Dutschke returned to Germany he would become the 'aim of right extremist groups'.

When asked of the role of the Springer press in the student unrest Herr Albertz said:

"The Springer concern certainly played a substantial role in the movement against the students. They regarded the socialist students as a revolutionary minority of young people who are out to destroy a situation of law and order.' Impression 'The Springer press was constantly arousing the impression that they were rebelling minorities - a kind of group of agents of the Communist states, particularly the German Democratic Republic.

'Of this there was obviously no proof and the position was therefore absurd,' added Herr Albertz.

Herr Albertz praised Dutschke's peace-keeping role in the student troubles prior to his near assassination by a right-wing fanatic in 1968.

I consider him to be one of the most alert and honest people in Europe, which, of course, could be inconvenient for the authorities.' He said that all politically responsible people in Germany were 'very grateful that the United Kingdom granted him and his family asylum'.

For the political right, said Herr Albertz, Rudi Dutschke became a sort of symbolic 'negative figure out to destroy Attorney-General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, for the Home Office, asked Herr Albertz what Dutschke meant when he wrote about bringing anti-authoritarian methods learned in the streets into the factory.

"They learned on the streets the methods to carry through their arguments for the right of the individual and the freedom of the individual,' replied Herr Albertz.

Earlier the specially-constituted immigration appeals tribunal, headed by Sir Derek

Hilton, former president of the Law Society, heard reports on Dutschke's state of health.

Mr John Cleave, a consultant surgeon to the United Cambridge Hospital and East Anglia Regional Hospital Board said that Dutschke had suffered eight epileptic attacks since the shooting.

These usually occurred at times of stress and worry.

He needed to continue with his academic studies and have peace and quiet, said Mr Cleave.

He agreed with the Attorney General that it was clear Dutschke had made a considerable recovery and that in the interests of his health he should have avoided excessive travel and activity which might have created agitation.

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