In February 1974, the police cleared squatted houses in Frankfurt's Westend. Two days after the demolition, the city experienced the largest street battle to date.
Around 4,000 participants gathered in front of the rubble of the previously occupied "block" In the end, there were "77 injured police officers, almost a hundred mistreated demonstrators, 192 people arrested and an arsenal of firearms and impact weapons seized," according to SPIEGEL. The so-called "cleaning troops" of the left-wing group “Revolutionary Struggle” (RK) fought on the front line.