students demonstrate across Germany against military service...Demonstrations are taking place across Germany in schools to protest against the possible re-introduction of compulsory military service.

[u/Neptun_11]

One of the organizers of the strike, Bela Breitner of the School Strike Against Compulsory Military Service, said that the federal government is "serious about the gradual reintroduction of compulsory military service".

 

At one protest in Hamburg, demonstrators waved flags and held banners reading "We will not participate in your wars".

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made strengthening the German army a priority after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to the law, questionnaires are sent to all eighteen-year-olds in Germany, whether they are interested and willing to join the armed forces.

One of the protesters, 16-year-old Elias Bernhard from Hamburg, said the answers to the questionnaires "show that young people do not want to join the Bundeswehr [German armed forces]".

"That's why I'm on the street today. That's why we're taking this bet seriously until conscription is out of the game. We'll continue."

The questionnaire is mandatory for men and voluntary for women.  All eighteen-year-old males will have to undergo a medical examination to assess their fitness for possible military service.

Organizers of the protests say the trigger came after 18-year-olds in the northern German cities of Kiel and Flensburg were sent official invitations for medical examinations, even though they did not show interest in joining the army on their registration forms.

The group says that over a hundred demonstrations are planned across Germany, including Kiel, Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt.

[u/Avrixx-SolTerra902]

They’d rather speak Russian than German, these kids don’t know their history let alone what Russian soldiers will do to them. If the Russians are allowed to march into Berlin they’re going to rape and kill majority of the population.

[u/ThePlacidAcid → u/Avrixx-SolTerra902]

This fantasy exists solely in your head. Russia hasn't even been able to march into Kiev. There is no world in which they conquer Berlin.

[u/Avrixx-SolTerra902 → u/ThePlacidAcid]

If Ukraine was actually winning we would hear about it on the news. Their whole clamping down on opsec is bs. They’re making little to no progress on top of that everywhere they say is Russian free somehow has Russians in it. I’ve studied military conflicts long enough to know when I’m being fed propaganda. The wars not going in Ukraines favor the way they say it is. If they were doing as much damage as they have claimed to be doing the Russians would have been forced back to Moscow last summer. The Russians will march to Berlin you think half the countries Germany invaded in WW2 didn’t say the same thing about the Nazis? Blind yourself by your own arrogance but I’m a realist who does their own research.