Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes come from behind the Iron Curtain? The West German Defense Ministry did not know. Then what of the extensive and expensive radar net set up by West Germany and its NATO allies to prevent just such incursions? A Defense spokesman replied embarrassedly that there had been no reports of planes appearing on any radar screen, and added bleakly: "We have no idea what aircraft bombed Knechtsand. The investigation is continuing...
Near Giessen in Hesse, the first West German battalions equipped with Honest John missiles were in training last week, one impressive indication that the slow-starting Bundeswehr is at last getting going. A new urgency in the planning suggests that dynamic Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss (now on an inspection tour of the U.S.) is well aware that any summit agreement to freeze armaments in central Europe would leave West Germany in the cold...
...total planned strength of 200,000 men, the army today has only 123,000. Of the 2,500 pilots the new Luftwaffe will need, only 650 are trained, and new pilots are qualifying at the rate of only ten per month. (To step up the process, 300 German pilots are being trained in the U.S. and 200 in Canada.) The navy is making do with one destroyer and 130-odd minesweepers, patrol boats and submarines...
...days are long past when German opinion was hostile to remilitarization: according to a poll, 73% of West Germans favor a German share in Europe's defense. Also disappearing are some of the limitations on German armament manufacturing...
West Germany is still forbidden by treaty to produce ABC weapons (atomic, bacteriological and chemical warfare). But restrictions are being relaxed to permit German-made short-range antitank rockets. Naval training vessels are no longer limited to 3,000 tons. Germans may soon be allowed to manufacture antiaircraft rockets as well...