Word: bundeswehr
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...garages and cellars. Altogether, six German states along the Rhine, Main, Mosel and Nahe were engulfed by the rampaging rivers, barely more than a year after the Christmas 1993 floods. From Bavaria to the Dutch border, the washouts brought normal riverside life almost to a standstill and kept the Bundeswehr busy deploying rescue teams in rubber dinghies. Waters lapped at the doors of Bonn's new parliament building, and smaller sections of Frankfurt were also overrun. Shipping was suspended entirely along the lower reaches of the Rhine, the world's busiest inland waterway. In Koblenz the river rose...
Bastian, a former Bundeswehr major general who was 69 when he died, had written an open letter in September decrying recent xenophobic attacks that had "spread like wildfire over the land." But there was no sign that the shootings were meant as political protest or, for that matter, anything else...
Before it disappeared into the mists of cold war history, East Germany believed it had found an unlikely ally in extremis: the World Jewish Congress. History professor Michael Wolffsohn of Munich's Bundeswehr University says records of private meetings held between East German leaders and W.J.C. delegations before the Communist regime collapsed show that a representative of the Jewish group expressed support for keeping East Germany a separate state. "Reunification is not on the agenda," Maram Stern, an aide to W.J.C. president Edgar Bronfman, was quoted as telling the East Germans. "The W.J.C. will do everything it can so that...
...command of the Bundeswehr Ost, the remains of the former East German army, has inherited a logistical nightmare: getting rid of the Soviet army. According to U.S. military attaches, the Soviets have more than a million tons of munitions stockpiled on German soil, not counting the array of tanks, guns, planes and rocket launchers to deliver them. In addition, the 380,000 Soviet troops still stationed in East Germany occupy some 2,000 military "objects," which means everything from barracks to hospitals to airfields. If the Soviets meet the current four-year timetable for withdrawal, they will have to dispose...