Peace tour: Hermann Reeh leads the second stage from Cologne to Bonn
On September 21, the World Day of Peace, Hermann Reeh from Steinebach started a peace tour under the motto: “If you want peace, prepare peace”. For the second stage, Reeh started from Hiroshima-Nagasaki Park in Kln.
Region. This year, Reeh is leading, among other things, on the trail of the Peace of Westphalia from Osnabrück to Münster on the peace route. During these hours, the peace negotiations to end the Three Years’ War (1618-1648) were being conducted.
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Park is part of the inner green area of the city of Cologne. The cathedral city is a self-imposed nuclear weapons-free zone and has been a member of the international alliance against nuclear weapons, the so-called Hiroshima-Nagasaki Alliance, since 1985. In August 2007 the Abolish Nuclear Weapons memorial was unveiled up there on the hill. The bronze crane badge of the Japanese atomic bomb victims is located on this memorial stone. Cologne has also joined the ICAN city appeal, which calls on the federal government to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty.
Cologne Mayor Renate Canisius said at the opening of the Peace Park: I see this park as an important base from which a message of peace can spread. The message is: Abolish all nuclear weapons worldwide! We don’t need military bases that make warfare possible. We need peace bases like this park so that the idea of a decent life in peace spreads.
In bright sunshine, Hermann Reeh drove along the Rhine to Bonn. The marketplace in front of the old Bonn town hall was his goal. On May 10, 1933, as part of the campaign to spread the un-German spirit, books by well-known writers were burned on this square. Among them is the anti-war novel by Erich-Maria Remarque Nothing new in the West. Reeh had started his Peace Bike Tour in Remarque’s birthplace, Osnabrück.
On May 10, 2013, a memorial was erected on Bonn’s market square to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the book burning. The memorial consists of bookmarks scattered across the square. These bronze books embedded in the pavement contain the titles and names of the authors of the books burned by the National Socialists on the spine. The bookmarks, which are initially randomly distributed around the square, condense at the point in front of the stairs of the Old Town Hall where the books were burned. It was not the Nazi mob who burned the books, but university teachers in robes and students.
Bonn has also joined the city’s appeal for the signing of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. In times when warlords are preparing hell on earth for the people, when politicians outdo each other in demands for further rearmament, when celebrations are celebrated in the armament industries, the city appeal for the signing of the nuclear weapons ban treaty Cologne and Bonn approve the city appeal – a little hope, according to Hermann Reeh. (PM)
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