No distance is too far for peace and reconciliation: over the next three weeks, a trek with horse-drawn carriages will make its way from Dresden via Prague to Chemnitz to campaign against warmongering and for a peaceful world. The trek is also a dress rehearsal for a campaign planned for next year - 80 years after the end of the Second World War. The Peace Bells Association will then set off from Berlin to Jerusalem with a bell cast from military scrap. "We want to send a powerful signal that there will one day be peace," said Helmut Kautz, head of the association, to the German Press Agency. We will not stop believing that swords will be forged into plowshares and that people will come to their senses.
Especially in times of uncertainty and helplessness, it is important to hold on to the promise of peace. Kautz: "We want to meet people and celebrate reconciliation with them." At the end of the Second World War, no one believed that the Germans would once again get along with the world as they do now. "That's why we believe that peace and reconciliation will be possible. We want to take the bell to a school in Jerusalem where Hebrew and Arabic are taught. To send a signal that reconciliation is possible. The Germans have experienced it."
