SPD Peace Manifesto: »Knowledge About the Importance of Diplomacy Is Missing«

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In the government, the SPD contributes to the militarisation of the FRG. The Peace Manifesto has brought arms control and diplomacy back into focus. A conversation with co-author Arno Gottschalk of the SPD Bremen.

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The President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer, sharply criticized the policy paper by several SPD politicians calling for a reorientation of defense policy and talks with Russia. "We have learned from history that appeasement and pacifism have never been successful tools against aggressors and war. I fear that nothing has changed," Kramer told the "Handelsblatt" newspaper. While the "longing for pe…