It was a shot that changed the Federal Republic of Germany. On June 2,1967,West German police officer Karl-Heinz Kurras shot and killed student Benno Ohnesorg during a demonstration in Berlin. The incident served as a rallying cry for the German student movement. An extremist terror group went so far as to name themselves after the day Ohnesorg was killed. Now researchers at the documents archive for the former East German secret police,the Stasi,have made a startling discovery
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