skunk works
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German military is the only thing that isn’t woke in Germany. It’s quite interesting.
Assessments of West German rank and file soldiers during the cold War were not good. I remember reading it from a US military nuclear artillery officer stationed in Germany.One has to understand that we have a different perspective to them. Germans haven’t been allowed to overtly recognise their own history since WW2 and celebrate much of what they had to be proud of. This only creates more fringe thinking if you push them in the darkness. That’s why there’s a LOT of Neo-nazi like things popping up these days- particularly in Eastern Germany.
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a lot of people conflate these kind of units celebrating specific military units (many of whom predated Hitler) and and nazism. the KSK can trace its linage back to elite units in WW2 that had military successes and served their nation. Seen from this light it’s a different story.
Moral of the story- don’t eff around with Germans, that’s exactly how you get facists but the leftists have been in charge for a long time now and they are creating pushback.
He said the biggest threat to the Pershing missiles was sabotage by communist locals, and that he didn't have confidence in the Bundeswehr security force.