Abstract
Abstract The evaluations that the West German peace movement is receiving internationally are manifold and confusing. Both the opposition parties in Bonn and the U.S. secretary of defense view it as a fifth column, financed and directed by Moscow; the French Left considers it the expresion of the German inability to fight (and to die?) for freedom. It is deemed a forerunner of a West German neutrality course, a signpost of the “Finlandization” of Central Europe and even the symptom of a reawakened German nationalism. One thing is common to these judgments: the inability, if not the unwillingness, to take into consideration the social and political development of West Germany in recent years, without which it is absolutely impossible to discuss this “movement,” its complexity and its significance in terms of the development of social conflicts.
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