To find out why, it’s helpful to look at the Bundeswehr’s founding document, the Himmerod memorandum of 1950. Five years after the end of World War II, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer secretly tasked 15 ...

Last month, the German army published a document asserting that it bases itself on the tradition of the Wehrmacht, the army of the Nazi regime that massacred and starved tens of millions of civilians ...

The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...