Germany and its troops in Africa - a new job for the Bundeswehr

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Ever since the German re-unification in 1990 German troops have slowly begun playing a more active role abroad.

Radical changes due to German reunification​

However, after German reunification, it became clear that Germany would have to take on a more active role in fulfilling its obligations from international treaties. In this context, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl had already declared in his government policy statement in the first reunified German Bundestag on 4 October 1990 that reunified Germany would fulfil its international responsibilities and that the necessary constitutional basis would be established.

The Bundeswehr as an Army on Operations

Threats do not respect national borders. This is why Bundeswehr soldiers are now deployed worldwide.

www.bundeswehr.de

At present the Bundeswehr is stationed in Mali and Niger and some other places.

 

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Germany to deploy troops in Niger for EU military mission​

 

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Hum what threat to Germany was there in Niger?

 

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Before in Sudan:

The Luftwaffe has flown out more than 300 people so far from an airfield near Khartoum, according to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, adding these included citizens from Germany, Belgium, Britain, the Netherlands, Jordan and the United States.

German military planes evacuate more than 400 from Sudan

Four German air force planes have evacuated more than 400 people from Sudan as of Monday, as countries rush to get their citizens out of Khartoum while a shaky ceasefire held in the Sudanese capital.

www.reuters.com

 

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Remember the desert fox?

 

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about Rommel:

Rommel has become a larger-than-life figure in both Allied and Nazi propaganda, and in postwar popular culture. Numerous authors portray him as an apolitical, brilliant commander and a victim of Nazi Germany, although this assessment is contested by other authors as the Rommel myth. Rommel's 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 and the United States on one side and the new Federal Republic of Germany on the other. Several of Rommel's former subordinates, notably his chief of staff Hans Speidel, played key roles in German rearmament and integration into NATO in the postwar era. The German Army's largest military base, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf, is named in his honour. His son Manfred Rommel was the longtime mayor of Stuttgart, Germany and namesake of Stuttgart Airport.

Erwin Rommel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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That was under the Chancellorship of Helmut Schmidt

GERMAN TROOPS FREE HOSTAGES ON HIJACKED PLANE IN SOMALIA; AT LEAST 3 TERRORISTS KILLED​

By Henry Tanner Special to The New York Times

• Oct. 18, 1977

BONN, Tuesday, Oct. 18 — Ninety minutes before a threatened massacre deadline, a West German commando unit stormed a hijacked Lufthansa airliner on an airport runway in Mogadishu, Somalia, today and ended a five‐day, 6,000‐mile hijacking episode by shooting the four terrorists and freeing all 86 hostages unharmed, the Interior Ministry announced early today.

The attack ended the ordeal for the passengers and crew of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was taken over by the four terrorists less than an hour after it had left the Mediterranean island of Majorca Thursday on a routine flight to Frankfurt.

The West German Government announced that all four hijackers had been killed. [Somalia's official press agency reported that three of the hijackers had been killed, but that a fourth, a woman, had been captured, Reuters reported from Mogadishu.]

The terrorists had taken the Boeing 737 on a 6,000‐mile odyssey to Rome, Cyprus, Bahrain, Dubai, Aden and finally Mogadishu, killing the pilot en route and setting several deadlines to blow up the jet and the hostages unless the West German and Turkish Governments met their demands to free 11 members of the terrorist organization known as the Baader‐Meinhof gang and two Palestinians imprisoned in Turkey. They also demanded a ransom of $15 million.

The storming of the plane came after a day in which pressure on the West German Government mounted and international concern over the fate of the plane's 82 passengers and four crew members grew. In Rome, Pope Paul VI said that, “If it were useful we would offer even our person for the liberation of those hostages.”

GERMAN TROOPS FREE HOSTAGES ON HIJACKED PLANE IN SOMALIA; AT LEAST 3 TERRORISTS KILLED (Published 1977)

W Ger commando unit storms jetliner; kills 3 of 4 terrorists and frees hostages; pilot Juergen Schuman was murdered after landing in Aden, Southern Yemen; Internatl Fed of Air line Pilots Assns denounces govts for failing to act decisively; W Ger pilots call for worldwide strike; map of plane's...

www.nytimes.com

 

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That was an important day!

 

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That was an important day!

There were two that year; the German rescue came months after the Israeli rescue

HOSTAGES FREED AS ISRAELIS RAID UGANDA AIRPORT​

By Terence Smith Special to The New York Times

• July 4, 1976

JERUSALEM, Sunday, July 4 —Israeli airborne commandos staged a daring night‐time raid, on Entebbe airport in Uganda last night, freeing the 105 mainly Israeli hostages and Air France crew members held by pro‐Palestinian nijackers and flying them back to Israel aboard three Israeli planes.

The hostages and their rescuers were due back in Israel this morning after a brief stopover at Kenya's International. Airport at Nairobi, where at least two persons were given medical treatment in a field hospital on the runway. No details of the extent of the casualties were available here pending notification of the families.

Only fragmentary reports of the raid were immediately available here. An unspecified number of commandos apparently flew the 2,300 miles from Israel to Entebbe Airport and surprised the hijackers on the ground.

The hijackers were spending the night with their hostages in the old passenger terminal at Entebbe where they have been confined all week. They had commandeered an Air France airliner last Sunday shortly after it had left Athens on its way to Paris. News agency reports from Entebbe said that a number of large explosions — perhaps bombs — were set off at a distant point on the airport, apparently to divert the ring of Uganda troops that had surrounded the old terminal all week.

HOSTAGES FREED AS ISRAELIS RAID UGANDA AIRPORT (Published 1976)

July 4: Israeli airborne commandos stage daring night-time raid on Entebbe Airport, freeing 105 hostages and Air France crew held by pro-Palestinian hijackers and flying them back to Israel; hostages and rescuers are due in Israel after stopover at Nairobi, where at least 2 persons were given...

www.nytimes.com

 

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I well remember that time!

 

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Germany urges citizens in Niger to join French evacuation flights​

BERLIN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The German foreign ministry urged its citizens in Niger to take up an offer from the French authorities to join their evacuation flights on Tuesday, days after a junta seized power in the west African country.

Germany urges citizens in Niger to join French evacuation flights

The German foreign ministry urged its citizens in Niger to take up an offer from the French authorities to join their evacuation flights on Tuesday, days after a junta seized power in the west African country.

www.reuters.com

 

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@ Mali

Civilian helpers of the Bundeswehr now ask for protection.

 

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At least one civilian helper for the Bundeswehr has been shot already.

 

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the german army will leave mali any day now