Tanto rumore per nulla? Le proteste contro le leggi di emergenza nell’ex-Germania federale (1960-1968)

Since the first proposal for an amendment with which to integrate the state of emergency into the Basic Law (1960) of the Federal Republic of Germany, a legal and political debate developed. From the middle of the decade, it evolved into an organized campaign against the so-called Notstandsgesetze. As the protest progressed, a climate of democratic emergency grew in which the ghosts of the past (Weimar and National Socialism) were often evoked as a warning to support the need or, on the contrary, the danger of emergency legislation for the new post-war German democracy.