Word: bundeswehr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Boeing 707 jet, accompanied by Chris Herter, the President left Maryland at 3:57 one morning last week, touched down in Newfoundland for a refueling and coffee stop, swept on across the Atlantic to land at Cologne-Bonn's Wahn Airport at 6:30 p.m. Bonn time. Bundeswehr artillery fired a 21-gun salute; a band played The Star-Spangled Banner and Deutschlandlied. Old Chancellar Konrad Adenauer, erect and brisk, stepped forward to greet the President, hailed the U.S. as "the standard-bearer of freedom." The President replied: "The name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination...
...argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else connected with the last years of Hitler. Finally, last March, President Theodor Heuss delivered a speech before the Bundeswehr Officer Training Academy of Hamburg in which he flatly declared the July 20 plot to be part of the Bundeswehr's "new tradition...
...Models." Last week the very man who was briefing Hitler at the time the bomb went off-former Chief of Operations Adolf Heusinger, who survived both the bomb and arrest in Operation Thunderstorm to become inspector general of the new Bundeswehr-signed an appeal to be read to all troops. He praised the men of July 20 for "their Christian-humanist sense of responsibility," added that "their spirit and their attitudes are our models." It is now defense-force doctrine that a German officer may break his oath of loyalty when his commander in chief sets himself above...
...Bonn, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer observed July 20 by laying a wreath at a monument to the victims of the Nazis. In West Berlin, officers of the new Bundeswehr, who had to wear civilian clothes because of the city's quadripartite occupation status, gathered to honor July 20 at the old headquarters of the Wehrmacht on what is now, in memory of the day, called Stauffenbergstrasse. To the Communist East Berlin Neues Deutschland, this was "dirty-dog hypocrisy." Snapped West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt "Over there, they have good reason to fear a 'rebellion of conscience...
...before a West German Bundeswehr draft board stepped handsome Wolf Rudiger Hess, 21, conscientious objector and son of convicted Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, now whiling away his life in Berlin's dark Spandau Prison. Young Hess explained that he is loath to put in his legal twelve-month stint in West Germany's army. With bitter Teutonic irony, he enlarged upon his refusal to be drafted: "My conscience forbids me to serve those who judged and condemned my father. Moreover, in performing military service, which might be construed as aiding in the preparation for a next...