Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
German and other German-language writers on peace and war
Berthold Auerbach: Practicing for mutual manslaughter
Walter Benjamin: Self-alienated mankind experiences its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt: Christianity and War
Heinrich Böll: Every death in war is a murder – a murder for which someone is responsible
Heinrich Böll: I’m going to die soon and before the war is over. I shall never know peace again.
Wolfgang Borchert: It was war; stories from a primer
Wolfgang Borchert: Only one thing to do, say No!