Word: bundeswehr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, laying the cornerstone of a German West Point in Hamburg to train future officers of the leadership staff, Defense Minister Strauss decided to put in a good word for the old blood-and-iron ways. "Free of false prejudice and erroneous ideas of collective guilt," said he, "our Bundeswehr can now assume a new attitude toward the tradition. German soldiers need not be ashamed of this tradition. Follow the ageless tradition and the old ideals-selfless service, honor and bravery, linked to the needs of our time...
...thin, balding man who walked into the Defense Ministry at Bonn was exactly what the new Bundeswehr wanted. He introduced himself as Herr Doktor Robert Schneider with degrees in medicine, philosophy, psychiatry and law. Unmarried and with a lucrative psychiatric practice in the city of Goslar, Schneider nevertheless wanted to become an army medical officer. "This will mean a personal sacri fice, but money has never been a part of my life," he said nobly. "One must have ideals...
...Bundeswehr officers began an investigation. The letters differed considerably in penmanship and phrasing. But though they also differed in length and degree of indiscretion, all of them fitted a recognizable pattern. Most of the letters had been mailed from small towns just on the western side of the zonal border with East Germany. The investigators concluded that the addresses were supplied by West German Communists, that the letters were written in the East zone and then smuggled across the border and mailed...
...amorous panic, the Bundeswehr had to ask the Bavarian radio to broadcast an announcement to quiet the aggrieved wives. But one officer felt not so much indignant at East German trickery as he did despairing about West German women: "They didn't stop to think, didn't use their heads, or refuse to believe the letters out of confidence in their husbands. No. They opened them, read them and, instantly, they were convinced." Another officer had a different concern. "I hope," he mused thoughtfully, "that soldiers now won't get the idea of nonchalantly palming off real...
...Monde might be carrying its conclusions a little too far, but Defense Minister Strauss, unhappily ordering all German army flags at half mast on his wedding day, issued an order of the day to his new army: "The tragic deaths show the great responsibility of all superiors in the Bundeswehr and the need to carry out service with clear orders and interdictions...