The demonstrations draw a radicalized fringe, with the antiwar protests taken up by many of the same organizers as anti-lockdown demonstrations during the pandemic. But the decision to arm Ukraine still remains an uncomfortable one for many Germans.
MUNICH — Inside the meeting halls of the luxury Bayerische Hof hotel in Munich, world leaders on Saturday pledged to step up military support for Ukraine. But on the streets outside, thousands called for them to end it.It was a reminder of the divisions that cleave Germany, where just over half of the population supports arming Ukraine.
“We ask ourselves whether NATO is really still good for Germany,” said Jürgen Todenhöfer, a former Christian Democrat parliamentarian known for his criticism of the United States. “We have to serve peace and not the Americans.” “There always unfortunately was — both on the political extreme right and the political extreme left — you always had some anti-American prejudice or sentiments,” said Michael Link, the federal coordinator for transatlantic relations at Germany’s foreign office. “It comes up sometimes more and sometimes less.”
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