With its return to an aggressive foreign and great power policy and the preparations for a direct war against Russia, the German ruling class is once again openly relying on the criminal traditions of Hitler’s army, the Wehrmacht.

Almost unnoticed by the public, on July 12 the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) issued “Supplementary information on the guidelines for understanding and maintaining traditions in the Bundeswehr.” The document was signed by Lieutenant General Kai Rohrschneider, head of the Department for Operational Readiness and Support of the Armed Forces in the Defence Ministry. It explicitly names top officers of the Nazi Wehrmacht as “tradition-forming” and “identity-creating” for the Bundeswehr, today’s German army.

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    a founding principle of the bundeswehr in 1955 was “the conduct displayed by members of the military resistance against Adolf Hitler, especially the attempt of Claus von Stauffenberg and Henning von Tresckow to assassinate him”.

    stauffenberg and friend’s problem with hitler wasnt that he was a nazi. it was that he was losing the war.

    so this is just making something foundational even more explicit. they’re founded on and worship nazi losers. ostensibly not hitler (would’ve been bad optics in 1955 i guess) but nevertheless nazis, who got got by hitler. EVEN BIGGER LOSERS THAN HITLER.