Soldiers Are Murderers
"Soldiers are murderers" (german: link=no, Soldaten sind Mörder) is a quote from an opinion piece written in 1931 by Kurt Tucholsky and published under his pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel in the weekly German magazine ''Die Weltbühne''. Starting with a lawsuit against the magazine's editor Carl von Ossietzky for "defamation of the ''Reichswehr''" in 1932, Tucholsky's widely quoted assertion led to numerous judicial proceedings in Germany, also after World War II and until the late 20th century. In several cases in the 1990s, last in 1995, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that using the quote as a means to express pacifist views is protected by the constitution of Germany. Origin Journalist, writer, and satirist Kurt Tucholsky was conscripted as a soldier in World War I, and in 1919 co-founded the Friedensbund der Kriegsteilnehmer, a pacifist and anti-militarist organization of war veterans. The 4 August 1931 issue of ''Die Weltbühne'' had pacifism as its main subject matter, ...
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