German army in new racism row

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Author: Vgis
Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 9:54 pm
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/14/germany.race.ap/index.html
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BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- A video showing a German army instructor telling one of his soldiers to envision African-Americans in the Bronx while firing his machine gun was broadcast Saturday on national television.

The video, coming after scandals involving photos of German soldiers posing with skulls in Afghanistan and the abuse of recruits by instructors, seemed likely to raise more questions about training practices in Germany's conscript army.

"We can no longer talk about an isolated case," said Lt. Juergen Rose of the Darmstaedter Signal, a group of current and former army officers and sergeants who independently review military procedures.

"Things like this don't happen in the army on an everyday basis, but unfortunately in recent years there have been a number of comparable incidents."

The Defense Ministry said the video was shot in July 2006 at barracks in the northern town of Rendsburg and that the army has been aware of it since January.

"We are currently investigating the incident," said Florian Naggies, a spokesman for the army and Defense Ministry.

Author: Nwokie
Monday, April 16, 2007 - 3:00 pm
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What do you expect, when the "New" german army was organized, the head of the Blank Commission that oversaw it were Field Marshal Vo Mainstain, Col Gen Guideran, and Col Gen Montouffel.

Mainstain and Guideran were the Officers that designed the Blitzering and lead the charge into Poland, France and Russia.

Montouffel was one of the 2 army group commanders in the battle of the Bulge, and he served as Hitlers military trainer, doing essentially the same for the new Germany Chancellor.


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