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watwutyesterday at 8:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

Germany was one of the least militarized countries after WWII. They were kind of scared of themselves.


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aleph_minus_oneyesterday at 8:50 PM

Rather: the "victorious" countries of the Second World war were afraid of a re-militarization of Germany. On the other hand, they wanted to re-militarize the Western part of Germany just a little bit so that West Germany could become part of the NATO.

samusyesterday at 8:44 PM

Quite the contrary; up until the end of the Cold War both German states were highly militarized. They were quite happy to be able to roll back a lot of it after the reunification though.