The '68ers still polarize opinions. Heinz Bude has spoken with men and women who were there at the time. What they share is the departure from childhood amidst ruins into a world of liberated living. However, Adorno warned them that the more one understands society, the harder it becomes to be useful within it. With a bleak past behind them, they wanted to change society to find their own lives. Fifty years after the revolt, it is time to understand how much of the personal influenced the political back then: Heinz Bude, one of the best experts on German society, takes stock.