• Constructing Peace

    WUC - Willamette Room 400 Monmouth Ave N, Monmouth, OR, Monmouth, OR, United States

    In 1964, East Germany introduced an alternative, unarmed military service that recognized religious belief as a basis for conscientious objection. Drawing on oral history interviews, Party-State files, military and secret police documents and church records, Constructing Peace focuses on the development of this activism amongst the first two cohorts of Bausoldaten in the mid-1960s. In his […]