The peace movement and politics in Germany   — the original ideas and self-awareness of peace advocates in both German states

Abstract

The article presents an attempt at historical understanding of the experience gained by a united Germany, extracted from the idea of peace, both at the state and at the public level, with its own German characteristics — East and West Germany. The evangelical churches in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic perceived the nuclear threat as a casus confessionis and led the fight against it.

Keywords

• peacemaking
• the concept of peace
• east germany
• west germany
• evangelical churches