The country’s armed forces will hold joint drills with police early next year, officials confirmed.
Authorities stress that counterterrorism measures will primarily remain the responsibility of police.
However, the potential for large-scale attacks have made the use of German military assets “conceivable, even probable,” according to Lt. Gen. Martin Schelleis, the Bundeswehr’s chief of joint support services.
Plans to involve soldiers in counterterrorism operations — and the suggestion troops could also be used to beef up security in public places — have proved controversial in a country only seven decades removed from totalitarian rule that’s still grappling with guilt from the Nazi era.
A 2012 constitutional court ruling paved the way for the deployment of the Bundeswehr on German streets in the aftermath of an attack.
Until then, Germany’s constitution had allowed for domestic military missions only under special circumstances — such as natural disaster relief.
The restrictive legal framework was instituted as a result of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s abuse of state powers.
Schelleis suggested that a terrorist attack could qualify as “such a grave disaster” to allow the armed forces to support the police…
Remember Frank Zappa’s song, “It can’t happen here?”
Too little, too late.
Is having troops support the police really martial law?
Pay attention, America. Your future is being revealed to you ( Marshall law as last step to ( islamo-) Nazi dictatorship
Every couple generations, Germany goes off-the-rails, pursuing some ridiculous, utopian, ideological, social-engineering scheme.
And the reality always becomes oppression, statism, and usually, war
And the darnedest thing is, Germany’s wounds are entirely self-inflicted. Why does it not occur to anyone that the solution to their problems is simply to kick the Muslims out?
Plus there will be hundreds of police patrolling the grounds during the fest.
These 'refugees' bring nothing but death and destruction.
I bet those troops are being prepared to protect the Moslems, not the Germans...
George Soros puppet Merkel has done to Germany what Hillary will CONTINUE to do to the United States; Undermine Christianity and obliterate Western culture by using Islamists as their foot soldiers.
WAKE UP, AMERICA.
Obama taps Merkel’s phone and a year later she murders her own people.
Right. On. Schedule.
Considering the state of the militaries of our NATO buddies, I suspect that they will be an effective deterrent, as ISIS will be LAUGHING TOO HARD to keep focused on their objectives.
They invited the islamic vampires in, now they complain because their fangs are in the German neck.