Word: bundeswehr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposite shore. But 19 more were carried, struggling and gasping in their heavy combat gear, downstream towards the Iller Bridge. Four were rescued. Fifteen went to their deaths. It was the first major training accident in the history of West Germany's nascent (96,000-strong) Bundeswehr...
Konrad Adenauer hit the ceiling. In this election year the opposition, Socialists and Free Democrats, have vigorously decried any attempt to equip the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. Since Adenauer had intended from the start to get his nuclear weapons from the U.S.-Germany is treaty-bound not to produce them itself-he professed not to be disturbed by the scientists' pledge not to help make or test them. ("None of these 18 gentlemen," he snapped, "has been asked by anyone to cooperate in this matter, and none will be.") But he was plainly angry to hear...
...line. Chancellor Adenauer last week also began suggesting that it was time for West Germany to have atomic arms. First the Chancellor startled Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak by asking his help in winning West Germany permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. A few days later, during a twelve-hour session to settle the terms for the return of the rich Saarland to West Germany next year, Adenauer broached his atomic-weapons scheme to French Premier Guy Mollet. Mollet. obviously forewarned. sidestepped. But the question was still there to be answered...
...situation has become so bad that one Christian Democratic Deputy has proposed "measures to defend our soldiers against attack by the population." Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung editorialized wryly: "The Bundeswehr is being established for the protection of the state. Is the state now supposed to protect its soldiers against citizens...
...Socialists in turn abandoned all-out opposition on rearmament, concentrated on making sure that the reconstituted German army would never become a militaristic menace but would take its subordinate place under civilian and parliamentary control. Once the upper house and President Heuss add their approval, the new citizens' Bundeswehr* (Federal Defense Force) can get on with plans to take in some 90,000 men by the end of 1956, and to train 500,000 men (a twelve-division army, a 20-wing air force and a small navy) for NATO...