  We discuss various ideas on the nonperturbative vacuum structure in QCD. The
stochastic vacuum model of Dosch and Simonov is presented in some detail. We
show how this model produces confinement. The model incorporates the idea of
the QCD vacuum acting like a dual superconductor due to an effective
chromomagnetic monopole condensate. We turn then to high energy, small momentum
transfer hadron-hadron scattering. A field-theoretic formalism to treat these
reactions is developed, where the basic quantities governing the scattering
amplitudes are correlation functions of light-like Wegner-Wilson lines and
loops. The evaluation of these correlation functions with the help of the
Minkowskian version of the stochastic vacuum model is discussed. A further
surprising manifestation of the nontrivial vacuum structure in QCD may be the
production of anomalous soft photons in hadron-hadron collisions. We interpret
these photons as being due to `synchrotron radiation from the vacuum'. A
duality argument leads us from there to the expectation of anomalous pieces
proportional to $(Q^2)^{1/6}$ in the electric form factors of the nucleons for
small $Q^2$. Finally we sketch the idea that in the Drell-Yan reaction, where a
quark-antiquark pair annihilates with the production of a lepton pair, a
`chromodynamic Sokolov-Ternov effect' may be at work. This leads to a spin
correlation of the $q\bar q$ pair, observable through the angular distribution
of the lepton pair.
