Judgments & Prophecies, Oct. 11, 1954

NEW TYPE GERMAN SOLDIER MUST BE CRATED

KURT LINDE, a major general in the German army during World War II and executive director of the German Veterans' Association, writing in the monthly magazine Der Monat:

THE call for the German soldier as a co-defender of the free world did not come from us. But now Germany is again to bear arms, integrated and built into a European defense system. The new German soldier must be different from the German G.I. of World War II, not only in outward appearance. His future status within the state will...

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