He is the ideal European messenger. A Protestant raised in Catholicism, in a town in Westphalia where there was no question of not being Catholic if you wanted to eat your fill in the post-war years, this young Hellenist made his entry at the Sorbonne to teach German philosophy in the early 1960s. A “Deutsche Freund” was needed after the signing of the friendship treaty between the two countries, he explains to us. But in 1968, the good story ended, and he was “fired” due to a misunderstanding: a photo published in left-wing newspapers showed him with a microphone in hand haranguing his students. He is suspected of wanting to do his Cohn-Bendit. Nay!
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I yelled at them because they wanted to make agitprop in the factories. I told them that their place was on the university benches…
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