Bomb from World War 2 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
When I want to find out about the new long-haul Airbus A400M military transporter from which Germany has ordered 60 pieces, on the official page of the "Ministry of Defense", I find there to nothing, but on the very first page something else:
The reference to a speech by the Federal Minister of Defence zu Guttenberg during the ceremony, "Armed Forces and American Jewish Committee: 15 years of partnership and trust" on 8.12.2009 in Berlin.
Clearly, Here I had missed something.
The AJC is a private organization founded in the USA in 1906. So far I did not know that the Bundeswehr received official partnerships with private organizations.
The AJC looks, according to self-reported primarily in the role "to ensure the welfare and safety of Jews in the United States, 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 with the Defense Department? So I had the speech read Guttenberg, and I try to be more understanding:
"We Germans want to keep the memory of the Shoah awake. We provide our special responsibility we bear after the barbarism of National Socialism; 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 immutable part of German raison d'etat. This responsibility requires all Germans -. And therefore the Bundeswehr as an army of democratic Germany " (more ...)
