Geteilter Friede: Anmerkungen zur Friedensbewegung in den 80er Jahren
The Peace Movement was never a unified force. It is much more fitting to speak of Peace Movements. But these altered their nature significantly in the 1980s. In West Germany, the so-called Peace Movement was largely infiltrated in the 1980s by the Communist Party, and was financed and turned into an...
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1995
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1995, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 440-509 |
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| Summary: | The Peace Movement was never a unified force. It is much more fitting to speak of Peace Movements. But these altered their nature significantly in the 1980s. In West Germany, the so-called Peace Movement was largely infiltrated in the 1980s by the Communist Party, and was financed and turned into an instrument for its policy of intervention. Only a few politicians in the Green Party undertook significant resistance against this misuse of the Peace Movement by the Communists, whereas church peace groups, particularly in the Protestant Church, were noted for their sympathies with the Communist peace ideology. At first the West German Socialist Party tried to limit the influence of this manipulated peace movement, but Chancellor Helmut Schmidt lost this battle in 1982, when his party lost its ruling mandate in Bonn. After this defeat the Socialist Party was more ready to join with the peace movement in its opposition against the Kohl government. The result was a much more sympathetic attitude towards the East German leader, Honecker, and his associates, who were busy directing the Peace Movement from East Berlin. In East Germany itself, the Peace Movement developed in a totally different direction, when independent thinkers and church-based groups gained a decisive influence. They demanded human rights, as well as freedom and democracy for all citizens of East Germany, and closely linked peace with freedom. So the independent peace movement became a reform movement and finally a freedom movement and contributed massively to the overthrow of the East German regime in the autumn of 1989. Since 1980 a consultative committee of the Protestant Church's Executive Council which met regularly with representatives of the East German Church Council, seeking to find a middle position over the question of peace, was itself drawn into the machinations of this "Peace Struggle" and even can be considered to have been infected by the Protestant disease of too much ideology, in this case Socialism, and so could not effectively act as a bridge between East and West. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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