German Peace Society

It still exists and is known as the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft - Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen (DFG-VK; German Peace Society - United War Resisters).

Responsible for the procedure were Alfred Hermann Fried and Bertha von Suttner, one of the most known German women of that time.

The German Peace Society protested against imperialism, militarism, the discrimination of minorities and the chauvinist upbringing of young people.

After the beginning of the First World War, members started to go into exile or were hiding from publicity to avoid oppression of any kind due to a general disaffirmation towards a pacifist agitation.

However, due to the existing Stab-in-the-back myth, pacifists were also under attack and made responsible for the German loss of the war.

This concerns mainly the direction of a traditional upper class pacifism (which also partly supports defensive wars) and a newly rising, more radical pacifism carried out by works and members of the lower classes which in the end, enforced their radical ideas and ended with the withdrawal of eleven board members and the new elected head Paul von Schoenaich.

This included the loss of many members, the still forbidden status in the Soviet occupied territory in Germany and the rumours of being infiltrated by communists.

[16] In 2011, the Society founded a campaign against the delivery of weapons to states that fail to meet certain standards of human rights and international law.