Proposal for peace 66 years after the end of
hostilities of World War II.
The armistice of 1945, still in effect and the existing UN clauses defining
Germany as a hostile state are to be repealed. To the benefit of their several peoples,
the former enemies shall work together as sovereign partners
with equal rights under a peace treaty to be mutually agreed and
shall settle all their differences in future by negotiation and
discussion, never again by violence.
To those ends, Germany suggests:
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The parties shall pardon all war crimes and
violations of international law committed against each other
during and after the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
- The parties shall cease accusing each other of war
crimes and cease seeking reparations and compensation for
actions taken against each other during world war two.
Accusations of war guilt are to end. To
assure this, we suggest the following:
- Opening of all archives of the former enemies for
research to find out the actual events in the developments
between 1900 and 1950. This is to include the reciprocal
return of all confiscated original archival documents,
provided that the state returning such confiscated documents
may make and retain copies of such documents.
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A truth finding commission
of independent historians of neutral states shall assess all
original documents still kept secret in archives and shall
adopt the results as the foundation for educational work of
schools and universities in the contracting states.
Peace is to be made irreversible by the contracting partners. This is to be
achieved through:
- Retirement of all occupying forces and return of bases to the host
country.
- The preservation of the contracting partner’s borders.
- Return of all confiscated property; where this is impossible, a
balancing solution has to lead to an agreement as part of
the negotiating process undertaken by the parties to this
agreement.
- All negotiations shall be open to the public, both while they occur
and as they are recorded for posterity.
- NATO shall be transformed into NESO (Northern Earth Security
Organisation) to serve both as a political
organisation and a defence organisation which
ensures that no member can form a coalition against another
member state of NESO.
- Simultaneously NESO will ensure free world trade and secure
open trade routes on land, sea and in the air.
- NESO will ban piracy.
- NESO states declare to the world public their renunciation of violence
to settle dispute. They will respect all nations’ right of
self-determination and never again raise weapons first. The
right to sanction the use of arms against violators of
international law, is reserved to the United Nations only.
- NESO states will not admit to its membership or continue in membership
any state that breaks international law, commits genocide or
expels ethnic minorities.
- NESO states guarantee religious tolerance and will not allow any
religion to dominate another one.
On the basis of these 14 points
the governments concerned could be invited to a peace
conference in Münster and Osnabrück (Germany) to end
World War II finally and by this give future generations an open
way into a peaceful ordering of the world’s affairs based on
reciprocal respect and group responsibility.
Initiative des Verbandes deutscher Soldaten e.V.
Bonn
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