Germany has set out to build up a stronger military breaking from decades of defence policy in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
German leader Olaf Scholz declared the strategic policy change during a political-military conference presenting the deep change in the world order.
He declared: “Today, nobody can seriously doubt what we in Germany have been avoiding for a long time, namely that we need a powerful Bundeswehr.
“Our peace order is in danger,” he stressed and argued that Germany needed “a long-term, permanent change of course.”
Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has also spoken of a need for the German military, known also as the Bundeswehr, to undergo an upgrade.
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He said the Bundeswehr, “needs to be upgraded for this. Only a Bundeswehr that is so strong … can ultimately prevent the worst from happening,”
“We need a Bundeswehr that can defend itself and wage war in order to defend our security and our freedom.”
It comes as Scholz and Germany’s main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster, spoke at an anniversary ceremony at a Berlin synagogue, that in as recently as October this year was attacked with firebombs.
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Up to 30,000 Jewish men were arrested, many of them taken to concentration camps, during the war, such as Dachau or Buchenwald. Hundreds more killed themselves or died as a result of mistreatment in the camps years before official mass deportations began.
“Jews have been particularly affected by exclusion for centuries,” Scholz said in his speech.
“Still and again here in our democratic Germany — and that after the breach of civilization committed by Germans in the Shoah,” they are being discriminated against, the chancellor added, referring to the Holocaust by its Hebrew name.
“That is a disgrace. It outrages and shames me deeply,” Scholz said. “Any form of antisemitism poisons our society. We do not tolerate it.”
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