Soldiers are murderers
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"Soldiers are murderers" is a quote from an opinion piece written in 1931 by Kurt Tucholsky and published under his pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel in the weekly German magazine Die Weltbühne. Starting with a
A building in Berlin displays the slogan, April 2016
Kurt Tucholsky, author of "Soldaten sind Mörder"
CDU leaflet argues that "our" soldiers are not murderers ("Unsere Soldaten sind keine Mörder!")
Protest against the 2014 Munich Security Conference
Antimilitarism
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Antimilitarism is a doctrine that opposes militarism. Whereas pacifism is the doctrine that disputes should be settled without recourse to violence, Paul B. Miller defines anti-militarism as "ideology
Soldiers are murderers
…and satirist Kurt Tucholsky was conscripted as a soldier in World War I, and in 1919 co-founded the Friedensbund der Kriegsteilnehmer, a pacifist and anti-militarist organization of war veterans. The 4 August 1931 issue of Die Weltbühne had pacifism as its main subject matter, containing a translation of Pope Benedict…
It Shoots Further Than He Dreams. Antimilitarist cartoon by John F. Knott. First published in March 1918.
Cover of the Piano Score for the light opera The Chocolate Soldier, based on George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man – both of which make fun of armies and militarist virtues and present positively a deserter who runs away from the battlefield and who carries chocolate instead of ammunition.
Henry David Thoreau