Things weren't as moving on German streets over the weekend as in Latvia, where thousands in Riga sang the Ukrainian national anthem in front of the Russian embassy;
Memories of the "singing revolution" of the Balts were awakened.
In Germany, when there are demonstrations for peace and freedom, there is more of a routine candle-in-the-window mood.
But the war in Ukraine has driven tens of thousands into the streets of Germany, closer to the "singing revolution" in the Baltics than to the intellectual poverty of the peace movement.
Their last convulsions read on Sunday: "The years of anti-Russian confrontational policy of the West, especially the USA and NATO, in no way justify Russia's military intervention."
Cardboard signs with the inscription "Putin, help!", as they were held up until recently by AfD sympathizers, will not be seen again anytime soon.
Rather, the Ukraine sympathy shows that the federal government could never have maintained the course it was defending during the invasion of Ukraine.
It would have been a line directed against the majority of its own population.
This majority represents exactly what Putin launched his war against.
Even if there are now warnings about a "relapse into history": The Germans are showing maturity.