A file of correspondence and reports concerning defence and the peace movement in East Germany. The documents include a despatch titled "War and peace in the GDR", examining the country's vigorous military defence policy and its efforts to condition all citizens to accept military activity as part of everyday life, and the way in which this has led to the growth of an independent peace movement inspired by the Protestant church. Other documents in the file cover the emergence of small unofficial peace groups, which are now in competition with the officially sanctioned movement; details of the Evangelical church's Friedensdekade event for "ten days of peace"; and a visit to Britain by a delegation from the Federation of Protestant Churches of East Germany.