Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as little as possible. Today, Berlin wants to make it 'fit for war,' but the ...

12/13/2022 December 13, 2022. A member of the German army's elite force, KSK, was among the far-right plotters who were arrested last week for planning to overthrow the government.

Germany has held its first ever "Veterans Day" to boost the image of the military as it races to find fresh recruits and a debate grows about whether to reinstate conscription.

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Faction: The German Army WWII In 1935, Hitler, Fuhrer of Nazi Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding the German army’s strength by bringing in military conscription and rearmament.

Klaus Pfisterer, of the German Peace Society — United War Resisters, a campaign group, said many of them did military service years ago, before conscription was abolished in 2011, and had then ...

It has been described as “one of the most historic paradigm shifts in Germany’s post-war history”. Friedrich Merz, the incoming German chancellor, announced on Tuesday evening a €500 ...