Bomb from WW2 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
When I want to inform me of the new long-haul Airbus A400M military transporter, of which Germany has ordered 60 pieces, also available on the official site of the "Ministry of Defense", I find there to nothing, but on the very first page something else:
The reference to a speech of Federal Defence Minister zu Guttenberg occasion of the ceremony "Bundeswehr and American Jewish Committee: 15 years of partnership and trust" on 8.12.2009 in Berlin.
Quite clear: I had overlooked something.
The AJC is a private organization founded in the US 1906th So far I did not know that the Bundeswehr received official partnerships with private organizations.
The AJC looks, according to self-reported, especially in the role of "ensuring the welfare and security of the American Jews, in Israel and around the world; to strengthen the key principles of pluralism as the best defense against anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry world; to improve the quality of American Jewish life, by helping to ensure Jewish continuity and deepen the ties between American and Israeli Jews. "
So far so good. I would have understood if so there would be a partnership with the AJC and German memorials - but the Department of Defense? So I had the speech read Guttenberg, and do my best to be more understanding:
"We Germans want to keep the memory of the Shoah awake. We provide our special responsibility that we carry after the barbarism of Nazism; the responsibility that we do not tolerate anti-Semitism and that we stand up for the right of existence and integrity of the State of Israel; the responsibility to ensure that freedom, human rights and tolerance are the uppermost maxims of our actions. This responsibility is unalterable part German raison d'etat. This responsibility obliges all Germans -. And therefore the Bundeswehr as an army of the democratic Germany "(more ...)
