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...wanted to teach had found his true vocation. In 1949 Strauss was elected to the first postwar Bundestag. At 33, he was the leader of Bavaria's delegation by virtue of his party post. "Anyone who wants a weapon in his hand," he said in one of his first speeches, "should have his hand...
...West Germany, Acheson's proposal met with sharp resistance. "Believe me," observed then-President Theodor Heuss, "at first it was not very easy to explain to the man in the street that it was his duty to do military service, after he had been told by propaganda that his previous military service had been bordering on criminal action." By this time, Franz Josef Strauss had observed that the man to get along with in German politics was Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer, under Allied pressure, began talking up German rear mament, Strauss did too. It looked like a road...
Democratic Boots. At home, Strauss had to combat a deep-seated antipathy to anything that smacked of militarism. Invited to join the fight against the new threat from the east, the first reaction of German youth was "Ohne mich" (Without me). Soldiers in uniform were booed in public places, and the Socialist opposition attacked every defense measure as a "provocation" to the Russians, and a blow to the negotiations for reunification...
...psychological problems of creating the new German army were unique. Though it was to be a democratic army, its first officers obviously had to be veterans of the old Wehrmacht, nearly all of whom had been willing Nazi servants. Strauss set up a special "Inner Leadership" school in Koblenz where the officers were shown movies of Nazi atrocities, given handbooks on democratic treatment of subordinates. The government provided elaborate legal safeguards for the new soldier's rights and easily accessible channels through which he could air his citizen gripes. A West German soldier is told: "A command must...
...five Luftwaffe wings are flying F-86s and F-845 for NATO. After keeping the French on tenterhooks for two years over a possible order for their Mirage III fighter, Strauss plumped last year for the U.S.-built F-IO4 as the Luftwaffe's main-line plane. The first trainer models have already been delivered, and the first 66 operational types are due from California in April. The revitalized German aircraft industry is building 210 F-1045 under license for 1961 and 1962 delivery, and a German-Belgian-Dutch consortium will supply another 364. All told, the order will...