Young people protest through art action
young people in the group YUNA – Democratic youth On Monday morning they set up a military cemetery on Friedrichsplatz. The art campaign is directed against the reintroduction of compulsory military service.
On Friday it was known, that the forced mustering of young men has begun. The protesters fear: “There will be exactly such military cemeteries here in Kassel, if the federal government reintroduces compulsory military service. In the end, it's us young people, who die by the thousands, if it really comes to that.”
To the 1. January 2026 the new military service law came into force, that allows the Bundeswehr, to officially carry out compulsory mustering again. According to the Federal Ministry of Defense, two thirds of young people have no interest to do military service. The youth protest continues: The next one will take place next Friday “School strike against conscription” in Kassel.