US EditionBundeswehr - Tens of Thousands of Students Demonstrate Against Military Service
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In many German cities there have been protests against the new military service again. In Berlin several thousand students took to the streets. Demonstrations also took place in Munich, Stuttgart, Bonn and Düsseldorf.
About 50,000 students demonstrate, up to 10,000 of them in Berlin. The young people want to take them seriously. And this is not just about their personal freedoms.
Today, around 50,000 pupils protested against compulsory military service nationwide. The latest demo in Berlin gave our author a déjà-vu. Is this the beginning of a young peace movement?
Military service is currently optional, but recruitment objectives could change the situation.
Once again, students go to the streets to demonstrate against compulsory military service. In the debate so far, "just decided from the top down," criticized the general secretary of the Federal Students' Conference in ZDF's "Morning Magazine".
Tens of thousands of students have demonstrated against the new military service in more than 150 cities. Many already announce resistance to possible convocations. In some places there were pressure from authorities and school leaders "Request for military registration" is written on the document, next to it the logo of the Bundeswehr. A student turns on a crank. Slowly the shredder pulls the paper down. The elongated snippets fall into a shopp…
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