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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nuclear NATO. Only five years ago, the new German Bundeswehr accepted its first recruits. Today the Bundeswehr has some 280,000 men, and by the end of next year will be at a planned strength of 340,000. Eleven of the army's projected twelve divisions have been activated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Watchman on the Rhine | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

NATO would then become the world's fifth power. Inevitably that means giving nuclear weapons to Germany, the new NATO power in Europe. With the memory of the Nazi armies so fresh in the minds of many Europeans, this is no easy decision. Properly enough, the man who will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Watchman on the Rhine | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Youngest and toughest member of Adenauer's Cabinet, Strauss is a man most Germans expect will surely rule Germany some day. He looks as German as a stein of beer. A hulking man (5 ft. n in., 190 Ibs.) with the powerful chest of a onetime cycling champion, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Watchman on the Rhine | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

But Germany's new forces are meshed with NATO more thoroughly than any other nation's. Every unit is or will soon be committed to NATO, under the overall command of the U.S.'s General Lauris Norstad. Even in the event of an East German uprising against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Watchman on the Rhine | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

Luftwaffe. Of a scheduled 100,000 men, the air force now has about 64,000, nearly all volunteers. Under command of Lieut. General Josef Kammhuber, boss of all German night fighters in World War II, the Luftwaffe is already airborne and climbing fast. So far, five Luftwaffe wings are flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Watchman on the Rhine | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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