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German army sets up first overseas bases since Second World War (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by NightOwl to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lithuania

Saved you a click

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can Lithuania be considered overseas to Germany though?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can technically get from one to the other via the Baltic Sea.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can technically get from the US to Canada via the Atlantic, so the logic checks out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Germany and Lithuania don't share a land border, though..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

US and Guatemala?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Remind me of Prussia and how that ended.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

* nervous Polish noises *

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

With permission this time tho, right?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

From the capitalist ruling class of course.

If they wouldn't allow it the country would just be labelled an enemy state to be overthrown by capitalists, as had been the case here.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

I think the people of lithuania are pro-base as well...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

* Anakin's face intensifies *

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Does "you can get there by train in 10h from Berlin" count as overseas? I thought that would imply, you know, a sea that you have to get over.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

While actively funding and supporting a genocide too.

West Germany was never denazified.

More Nazis in German justice department after WWII than during Third Reich: study

Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-nazi-officials-in-germany-post-world-war-ii-government-2016-10?op=1

From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.

Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler's rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.

While alot of the rest of the nazis stayed in power through NATO