Thousands of people across Germany took part in Easter marches over the holiday weekend to call for world peace.
The organizers on Monday reported that 100 events had taken place across the country over the Easter holiday period.
The first rallies were on Holy Thursday, with the last ones following on Easter Monday.
According to police, around 1,100 people gathered in Frankfurt on Monday for an Easter march, while organizers put the figure at 3,500.
Police reported around 2,600 participants in the Easter march in Hamburg, and 600 participants in Dortmund.
Around 300 took part in a rally in the Rineland-Palatinate town of Büchel. Unconfirmed reports suggest US nuclear weapons are stored at the air base there.
The marchers demanded more commitment to peace in Ukraine and the Middle East, and rejected the planned deployment of US medium-range weapons in Germany.
Kristian Golla from the Peace Cooperative Network described this year’s Easter marches as a “clear sign for peace, diplomacy and disarmament and against the rearmament plans of the incoming coalition government.”
The Easter marches are organized locally by trade unions, left-wing and Christian peace groups. They are significantly smaller today than at the height of the movement in the early 1980s, when fears of a nuclear war between East and West were high.
“The peace movement is a reflection of society,” Golla said. “Even amongst us the question of arms deliveries to Ukraine is controversially debated – and there are peace-loving people who accept supplying arms to Ukraine in view of Russian aggression.”
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