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German militarism was a broad cultural and social phenomenon between 1815 and 1945, which developed out of the creation of standing armies in the 18th century. The numerical increase of militaristic structures in the Holy Roman Empire led to an increasing influence of military culture deep into civilian life.
A military order is defined in § 2 (2) of the German military penal law (German: Wehrstrafgesetz, WStG) as an: instruction for a defined behavior (Anweisung zu einem bestimmten Verhalten) given by a military superior to his subordinate; in written, oral or other form (for example, signals or signs) generally, or in a single case
Wehrkraftzersetzung death sentence issued by the People's Court on 8 September 1943 against Dr. Alois Geiger for defeatism. Wehrkraftzersetzung or Zersetzung der Wehrkraft (German for "corroding of defensive strength") was a sedition offence in German military law during the Nazi Germany era from 1938 to 1945.
Prussian soldiers patrolling in the streets of Zabern. The Zabern or Saverne Affair was a crisis of domestic policy which occurred in the German Empire at the end of 1913. It was caused by political unrest in Zabern (now Saverne) in Alsace-Lorraine, where two battalions of the Prussian 99th (2nd Upper Rhenish) Infantry Regiment [] were garrisoned, after a second-lieutenant insulted the ...
Hundreds of thousands of Germans had deserted from the Wehrmacht, many defected to the Allies or the anti-Fascist resistance forces, [1] and after 1943, the Soviet Union made attempts to launch a guerrilla warfare in Germany with such defectors and allowed the members of the National Committee for a Free Germany which consisted mostly of the ...
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, the German Navy, the German Air Force, the Joint Support Service, the Joint Medical Service, and the Cyber and ...
"In Germany, too, only the military point of view was decisive." [41] [o] The role of the army explains the mechanisms of the war guilt question. The roots of military supremacy are to be found in Prussia and in the system, established by Bismarck, in which Prussian militarism gained importance in the years after the unification of the Reich.
The Luftwaffe lacked an effective air defence system early in the war. Allied daylight actions over German controlled territory were sparse in 1939–1940. The responsibility of the defence of German air space fell to the Luftgaukommandos (air district commands), which controlled the anti-aircraft artillery (AAA), the civilian Aircraft Warning Service, and fighter forces assigned to air ...