It is not to be overlooked (Der Spiegel No. 46, pp 126-139, "The War Game".): The Heroic comes back, the Warlike, hard, inexorable.
After it for decades carefully exorcised, relentlessly exorcised, and even put under punishment, it is now in demand in Germany again.
The Germans had nearly six decades, the applicable "Never again war" to their utmost priority and even laid down in its constitution that it would apply only in a case of defense ever again to arms, but meanwhile, a new era was ushered.
The new era began almost imperceptibly to and fawning. It was of "responsibility" is mentioned. The fracture was initiated from a purely external totally unwarlike, yes unsoldierly, most unsportsmanlike, sometimes even downright flabby figure. This was all the more convincing speak of the necessity of war.
Foreign Minister Joseph Martin Fischer then cracked the resistance of the Greens and the Germans as a whole, in which he threatened to resign, and specifically the "Auschwitz-crowbar" ansetzte:
"We have always said, 'Never again war!' But we have always said, 'Never again Auschwitz' "!
He relativized completely inadmissible the horrors of the Holocaust by equating the situation in the former Serbian province of Kosovo with events of the past and at the same time that the German Trauma whether this debt specifically exploited and paralyzed so for political debate.
The German Bundestag approved the deployment of the Bundeswehr on 16 October 1998. This date marks the turning point, but that's not one recorded at that time in all its bearings. The competent Minister of Justice, Prof. Dr. Schmidt-Jortzig, completely forgotten today, stood bravely against the new trend. He protested and described the cabinet submission as "international law", was also the protocol and did not participate in the vote.
There was talk at the time of the "instrumentalization of German history" for a war with German participation. It was the first war of Germany after the end of the second world war. The bombing of Kosovo began in spring 1999 ...
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But now we are obviously already a giant step further: We have these hardships of the past, Joschka and the Red-Green coalition Thank behind us - the Martial and his aesthetics - they may meet again bring joy.
Thanks to you my mirror - it we had all secretly been waiting for: That you the effeminate German "intellellen *" readers of your sheet, the delights of the war again tasty and make them einheizt properly once.
The world as a "Warrior Field," Thank God, we no longer need to hold on to us now. Sixty years have been easy enough!
My reflection: I have your heroic aesthetic texts with corresponding images from my historical archive that I have purely for study purposes highlighted.
Thanks to you, you men!
(Source: Austrian Federal Army.)
"67 young soldiers going into battle, item 13 Clock local time they will turn out, in the rank and file, as it should be ..." (Mirror)
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"Dear Lord ... the battles we have to fight in our lives ... today we will not lose." (Mirror)
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"... Battalion commander in the 81st Airborne Division, a proud and manly soldier." (Mirror)
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"The cadets shoot with machine guns, make forced marches, abseil down from bridges, crawl in the mud, jump with the parachute." (Mirror)
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"'The guys are good,' he says, 'courageous, flexible, enforce it. Loud things that you need, when you meet the enemy in the war. '"(Mirror)
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"The soldiers will mainly learn the blows. 'You must feel and conquer their fear.' "
"'The group can only win if each one is ready to be tough on yourself. And that's me. '"(Mirror)
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"... The king says ihen before the battle of Agincourt: Who is ready to shed his blood with him, which is to be his brother." (Mirror)
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"You can not hide. This arouses the man in you. '"(Mirror)
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"Mission accomplished." (Mirror)
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So that no one forgets that death can separate the brothers. This is clear to everyone what can happen when thrill of sporty deadly serious. If the true battle begins. "(Mirror)
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"... And he may well imagine, to go to Afghanistan. 'I feel called me.' "(Mirror)
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From the perspective of the ladies can woman some satisfaction at the new trend not quite conceal Finally we no longer have any harsh beauty stolen from our Secretary of State, or from any fashion designer. Each individual is an unbearable loss for us! Now we can rest assured that the military again and the heroic is maintained us finally back!
Die Nibelungen, directed by Uli Edel
Of course we can not easily switch from zero to one hundred than women: this new type of man wants to be first of all understood and enjoyed again! For Softigen entry I therefore recommend to all the ladies the film "Die Nibelungen Part 1 + 2" with Benno Führmann (sigh!) And Kristanna Loken (sigh!) Here the heroic indicated already delicate to. The Warlike comes but fortunately ever so gently, therefore, that the time for a love in fire ring remains.
Once we understand this film, we can turn up a level: I recommend the ladies just once to see some old newsreels. So we are gradually coming back to the taste!
One is the author of "The War Game" but still said a body fat percentage of 22%? Yes they are mad, Mr. Grossekathöfer? This is an aesthetic affront sir. How is one to probably "jump through hoops, balance on beams, climbing a rope and a wall cross" with 22% fat because, as nimble as a greyhound be and can be hard as steel? They help you understand us now but please time Maik!
I say, as I leaf but rather in the photo album of my grandfather: All most 11% body fat and discreet feldgrau - bitter, proud men!
At the end - well, because it was certainly not more than 1% body fat ...
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Tags: The War Game , The Mirror , Joschka Fischer , never again war
Comment: "The War Game" in Der Spiegel, 2010, No. 46, pp 126-139.
It is appalling. The article "The War Game" documented in a startling way the abuse of sport to kill. As if there had never been a reappraisal of the tragedies of the "military sport ', which always has only the self-sacrifice on drill and reduced to the physical fitness goal. Examples are given in the article enough. The biggest mistake the separation of body and mind are to complain that seemed to be over already in the 20s of the last century and the apparent lack of human dignity. Typical is a uv, the portrayal of a rugby match against a hopelessly inferior opponent who after two minutes 0: 7 lags and is more humiliated after 12:21 without pity. Such a type of soldier is marked that stuns with roaring music from the headphones and followed the order "running and gunning". "... These guys are good, they are men strongman, enforce it!"
The Bundeswehr, however, had early learned the lessons of history and related to the sporting rule 10.03 on an educationally oriented sports training. At least at the officer schools the pure doctrine was implemented and in force for many years were started many promising experiments. It is hoped that an aberration of America does not pass through this time with us.
Klaus Zieglmeier
Blumenstr. 1
82256 Fürstenfeldbruck
Publications on the subject include: "The contribution of sport to Soldier`s Performance & Fitness"
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