March 1968

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This article covers current news and events back then - March 1968 .

Reports from the day's events in March 1968

March 1st (Friday)

  • Bonn: Federal President Heinrich Lübke rejects allegations made against him that he was involved as an architect in the construction of concentration camps during the National Socialism. See the horse stable-type concentration camp barracks .

March 8 (Friday)

  • Poland: Beginning of the March 1968 riots (student demonstrations), especially in Warsaw , Gdansk and Krakow .
  • Presumably an explosion on board the Soviet submarine K-129 causes it to sink to the bottom of the sea. All 86 crew members are killed. The sinking is the occasion for the Azorian project , the secret attempt by the CIA to recover the submarine from a depth of over 5,000 meters. The rescue attempt took place in 1974.

March 12th

March 16

  • South Vietnam: A war crime committed by US soldiers in South Vietnam , known as the Mỹ Lai massacre in Son My, was only known some time after the crime (research by journalist Seymour Hersh ). The outrage was instrumental in changing public opinion in the US and the western world about US warfare in Southeast Asia. Disguised as a fight against the “Viet Cong”, 504 civilians, including numerous children, women and very old people, were murdered.

March 18th

  • Washington: The US Congress removes the requirement that gold reserves must be built for the US currency. See gold standard .

March, 20th

  • Frankfurt / Main: World premiere of the political-agitational documentary piece "Viet Nam-Diskurs" by Peter Weiss .

Died:

Charles Chaplin junior (known as Charly Chaplin, born May 5, 1925 in Beverly Hills, USA), actor

March 24th

27th of March

  • Introduction of study entry restrictions based on average Abitur grades at scientific universities in Germany, the so-called numerus clausus .

28th March

  • Bonn: Resignation of the Federal Interior Minister Paul Lücke (CDU), as he cannot enforce the envisaged reform of the electoral law in the Bundestag.

March 31

Died:

Eduard Orth (born 1902 in Germersheim; died in Mainz) entrepreneur, politician (CDU)

For the month of this year

  • Nigeria : The Biafra War, civil war from 1967 to 1970
  • Prague: After a change in leadership in the Communist Party last year, the Czechoslovakia was unclear for a few weeks about a new direction, a reform course, the Czechoslovak ruling party under Alexander Dubček , which would lead to the “ Prague Spring ” and its suppression by Warsaw Pact troops.
  • Period in the Vietnam War in South Vietnam - the Tet Offensive against South Vietnam. and American allies lasted from 29./30. January to September 23, 1968. It had already peaked in January and February.

See also

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