Pacifist Dirk Zöllner: Under the wheels of war logic?

Sometimes it helps to read Stefan Heym. In the novel “Crusaders of Today”, the great Chemnitz author reveals a mechanism of war: Everyone involved, from the fleeing civilian to the soldier and every supplier to the state leader, develops goals. For one it is survival at all costs, for the other it is the advantageous position to be taken after the carnage s…