“Putin is preparing his people for war and positioning them against the West. “We must therefore be able to defend ourselves as quickly as possible,” the chairman of the Bundestag Defense Committee told the newspapers of media group Funke (Saturday). “Russia only produces weapons. Schoolbooks are printed portraying Germany as the aggressor. Children in primary school are trained in the use of weapons. “It’s all scary,” Strack-Zimmermann said.
She called for “activating the approximately 900,000 reservists we have in Germany.” These would have to be registered first. The Bundeswehr has not registered soldiers who have left active service for decades. “If we could get half of them with their expertise as reservists, that would be an incredible asset,” she said.
The chairman of the Reservists Association, Patrick Sensburg, also suggested a few weeks ago that the health status and availability of all former members of the Bundeswehr should be systematically registered in order to be able to plan them for internal security and national and alliance defense and to gradually include them to enable you to practice again. Reservists are all former soldiers and long-term soldiers in the Bundeswehr. However, this does not apply to former soldiers of the People’s Army of the GDR who never served in the Bundeswehr again after its end.