The Republican Club in Berlin on 5 February 1968:
In the night of 2 February, destroyed by unknown stone-throwing several shop windows of stores of the newspaper publisher Axel Springer and the destruction with the claim "Expropriate Springer" legitimized. Because of research and analysis in numerous working groups of the Board of the Republican Club, with the vast majority of its members are convinced that the expropriation claim is legitimate and prove to the restoration of democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin as indispensable is. The Republican Club has therefore assumed full responsibility of the "Springer-hearing", which is a substantial contribution to educating the public about the dangers of concentration of the press and the systematic manipulation of the truth through the newspapers of the Springer-Verlag. Public is essential to our work and our strength. It is also applicable to the 9th-11th Planned public hearing in February. It wants to identify himself through the objectivity of its analysis and interviews. The representatives of the Springer papers were invited. Therefore, the Board disapproved of the Republican Club, the actions of individuals, their violent provocations are only calculated to discredit the legitimacy of the education campaign and the expropriation claim. Neither the Board nor the Republican Club of the Preparatory Committee of the hearings have to do anything with this action.