West German rearmament (German: Wiederbewaffnung) began in the decades after World War II. Fears of another rise of German militarism caused the new military...
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German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939...
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Look up rearmament in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rearmament may refer to: German re-armament (Aufrüstung), the growth of the German military in...
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Bundeswehr (redirect from German Bundeswehr)
1954, France agreed to West German accession to NATO and rearmament. With growing tensions between the Soviet Union and the West, especially after the...
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Hans Speidel (category German conservatives in the German Resistance)
of the Bundeswehr, he was a key player in West German rearmament during the Cold War as well as West Germany's integration into NATO and international negotiations...
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Berlin Crisis of 1958–1959 (category 1958 in West Germany)
about "discrimination" when denied nuclear weapons as part of the rearmament. West Germany would demand tactical nuclear weapons or a general disarmament...
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to allow West German rearmament. In response, at the London and Paris Conferences, the Brussels Treaty was modified to include West Germany, and to form...
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to prepare for the rearmament of West Germany (Wiederbewaffnung). By March 1954 the Blank Office had finished plans for a new German army. Plans foresaw...
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in the German Army. Army personnel were made up of volunteers and conscripts. Only 17 months after Adolf Hitler announced the German rearmament programme...
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Hasso von Manteuffel (category Biography articles needing translation from German Wikipedia)
Party. A proponent of West German rearmament, he was responsible for coining the new name for the post-World War II West German armed forces, the Bundeswehr...
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Wehrmacht (redirect from Nazi German armed forces)
Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77401-7. Large, David Clay (1996). Germans to the Front: West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era. Chapel Hill and London: University...
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under Donald Trump." German Politics 27.2 (2018): 174–192. online Large, David Clay. Germans to the Front: West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era (U...
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Republic of Germany (German: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. The West German Constitution...
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Erwin Rommel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
reputation for conducting a clean war was used in the interest of the West German rearmament and reconciliation between the former enemies – the United Kingdom...
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Konrad Adenauer (category Pages with German IPA)
for independent West German rearmament and West German NATO membership. Thanks in part to Adenauer's success in rebuilding West Germany's image, the British...
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Felix Steiner (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
composed of former German military officers, as a propaganda tool and a military think tank for the rearmament of West Germany. Along with other former...
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led-government in East Germany, German reunification saw the former East German states join the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990. Germany has been described...
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allow West German rearmament. In response, the Brussels Treaty was modified to include West Germany, and to form the Western European Union (WEU). West Germany...
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permanently changed the ideology of the German armed forces. Since its creation during West German rearmament in the 1950s, the modern Bundeswehr holds...
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Myth of the clean Wehrmacht (category Articles containing German-language text)
discuss West Germany's rearmament and agreed upon the Himmerod memorandum. This memorandum laid out the conditions under which West Germany would rearm:...
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Bundesgrenzschutz (redirect from West German Border Police)
joined the newly founded German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) in 1956 and thus significantly contributed to West Germany's rearmament. The BGS was renamed to...
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the first woman ever to lead a German party. In 1951, she vocally opposed Adenauer's policy of West German rearmament and joined forces with the CDU's...
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productions. Rearmament and the founding of the Bundeswehr in 1955 brought with it a wave of war films which tended to depict the ordinary German soldiers...
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National People's Army (redirect from East German rearmament)
People's Army (German: Nationale Volksarmee, pronounced [natsi̯oˈnaːlə ˈfɔlksʔaʁˌmeː] ; NVA [ɛn faʊ ˈʔaː] ) were the armed forces of the German Democratic...
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Denazification (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the process was necessary for West German rearmament.[citation needed] On the other hand, denazification in East Germany was considered a critical element...
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Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and...
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Rommel myth (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
after the war, in the interest of the program of the German rearmament and the Allied–West German reconciliation. After the outbreak of the Korean War...
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Representative" of the Chancellor. As the rearmament plans met with harsh opposition by a wide circle within the West German population and contradicted the occupation...
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Bergepanzer 2 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the armed forces of Germany and other countries. It was later succeeded by the Bergepanzer 3 "Büffel". The West German rearmament from the mid-1950s led...
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Relationship: Basil Liddell Hart, Wehrmacht Generals and the Debate on West German Rearmament, 1945-1953, by Alaric Searle; War In History 1998 5: 327; published...
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