Generals for Peace

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Generale für den Frieden was an organization founded in 1980/1981, in which - organized by the agent of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR , Gerhard Kade , who worked as a professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt and under the code name "Super" at the same time as an unofficial member of the Stasi - the former NATO - generals had joined forces. Western State Security officials had the task of giving the peace movement an anti-American impact and spreading the belief that American missiles were endangering world peace while Soviet missiles served it. Investigations by the Federal Prosecutor's Office in 1993 revealed that the group was founded on an initiative by the State Security Intelligence Headquarters .

The idea of ​​founding the organization originally came from the Soviet secret service KGB and the GDR State Security. Kade also worked for the KGB under the cover name "Robust".

The GDR secret service collected data and prepared speeches and lectures for the generals, some of which were later given verbatim.

The organization was supported by the State Security with 100,000 DM annually. According to the head of the Stasi Headquarters Enlightenment, Markus Wolf , these were paid out in the form of a donation by the Institute for Politics and Economics . Wolf also testified that the statements made by the group recognized the influence that State Security had exerted on Kade. The Pahl-Rugenstein publishing house , which published the book Generals for Peace , was also financed by the GDR. On March 24, 1986 Bastian saw in East Berlin together with three other generals, including the Dutch General Michiel von Meyenfeldt , a preliminary version of the film “Die Generale” by SED propaganda filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann , the final version of which was on September 25, 1986 was premiered in the presence of Erich Honecker and other members of the SED Politburo .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Lorenz: Unconventional Politician Careers in Party Democracy , p. 419
  2. ↑ Background: Defense by deterrence - the arms race and its consequences. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Steinmetz, Tilo Prase: Documentary between evidence and pamphlet , p. 130
  4. ^ The Stasi mole in Bonn ( Die Welt , April 28, 2004)
  5. ↑ Stasi wrote the speeches. The green politician and his “Generals for Peace” were supplied by East Berlin. April 26, 1993. Retrieved October 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Hubertus Knabe : The undermined republic , p. 254
  7. ^ Robert Lorenz: Seiteneinsteiger: Unconventional Politician Careers in Party Democracy , p. 419
  8. ↑ Hans-Peter Schwarz: The Federal Republic of Germany: a balance sheet after 60 years, p. 176
  9. ↑ Beatrice de Graaf : Meijenfeldt, Michiel Hermann von (1923–1990) in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
  10. ^ Jochen Staadt, Stefan Wolle , Tobias Voigt: Operation television: the Stasi and the media in East and West , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-36741-4 , pp. 174-178
  11. ^ Robert Lorenz: Unconventional Politician Careers in Party Democracy , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, ISBN 978-3531164830 . P. 420

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