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The Bundeswehr (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌveːɐ̯] ⓘ, literally Federal Defence) is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany.The Bundeswehr is divided into a military part (armed forces or Streitkräfte) and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army, German Navy, German Air Force, Joint Support Service, Joint Medical Service, and Cyber and Information Domain Service.
The German Army (German: Heer, 'army') is the land component of the armed forces of Germany.The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr together with the Marine (German Navy) and the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).
West German rearmament (German: Wiederbewaffnung) began in the decades after World War II. Fears of another rise of German militarism caused the new military to operate within an alliance framework, under NATO command. [1] The events led to the establishment of the Bundeswehr, the West German military, in 1955.
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (2009) Hooton, Tim. The Luftwaffe: A Complete History 1933–45 (2010) Kelly, Patrick J. Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy (2011) excerpt and text search; Kitchen, Martin. A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (1976)
The German Air Force (as part of the Bundeswehr) was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War as the aerial warfare branch of the armed forces of West Germany. After the reunification of West and East Germany in 1990, it integrated parts of the air force of the former German Democratic Republic , which itself had been founded in 1956 as ...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits the Bundeswehr in 1956. The catastrophe of World War II led to militarism becoming widely discredited in Germany, as the second grand defeat in two decades had befallen the country. Due to the totality of the defeat of 1945, a new form of apologia akin to the "Stab in the back" myth was therefore almost impossible.
As a result of an agreement on mutual defense assistance, the new Bundeswehr received its first arms deliveries from the USA in its early days. After the attacks of 9-11 in 2001 and the political decision for "unrestricted solidarity" with the USA, the Bundeswehr became an "army in action". The focus of the operations is now concentrated on dry ...
The Military History Research Office (German: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, MGFA) was an office of the Bundeswehr located at Potsdam, Germany. Following a reorganisation in 2013, MGFA was consolidated with the German Army Social Sciences Studies Center to become the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr.