The German army will assist law enforcement starting Oct. 1, possibly resulting in platoons patrolling the streets and coinciding with the return of mask mandates — for the unvaccinated only.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine has underlined the need to align the leadership organization of the armed forces more closely with the requirements of national and alliance defense,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht and Inspector General of the German Army (Bundeswehr) Eberhard Zorn wrote in a joint Order of the Day issued on June 13.
“To this end, we have decided to set up a ‘Territorial Command of the Bundeswehr (TerrFüKdoBw)’ in Berlin on 1 October 2022.”
Henceforth, the document stated, “The command is directly subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Defence and is not part of an organizational area.” It also said, “Among other things, the state commands, the homeland security forces and the Center for Civil-Military Cooperation are subordinated to the command.”
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“With the establishment of the TerrFüKdoBw, we establish the national territorial leadership capacity across the entire spectrum of ‘peace-crisis-war,’” the announcement read.
“In this way, we are creating the necessary framework conditions to better meet our diverse tasks and to continue to make our contribution to the security of our country and to the fulfillment of our alliance obligations,” it continued.
According to German website DDB news, citing a memo by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, civil-military cooperation is described as follows:
“Civil-military cooperation is understood to mean the interaction of civilian and military forces in all conceivable areas. It is also firmly anchored in civil protection and is the basis for the Bundeswehr being an important building block in the Bavarian aid system.”
Despite the woolly wording of the document, the idea of platoons being deployed alongside several civilian operations sounded all the alarm bells with many commenters on social media.
“From 1 October, the German police will be reinforced with army units. Simply put, the military will take to the streets,” one Twitter user commented. “The German army received 100 billion euros, it seems that the population is the enemy. The times of Adolf back?”
Dusting off the masks
What the military’s tasks will entail can only be speculated. Still, the timing just happen
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