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Bundeswehr

[ boon-duhs-vair; German boon-duhs-veyr ]

noun

  1. the armed forces of Germany.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Bundeswehr1

< German, equivalent to Bundes, genitive of Bund federation + Wehr defense
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Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, recently got the all-clear for a massive increase in investment after parliament voted to exempt defence spending from strict rules on debt.

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The Bundeswehr, it concluded, had "too little of everything".

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The Bundeswehr only has one permanent drop-in centre, a small unit sandwiched between a pharmacy and a shoe store beside Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station.

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The extent of sabotage in any of the three incidents remains unclear although Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, have been on heightened alert because of Russia's war in Ukraine.

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People serving with the German military, the Bundeswehr, are required to get vaccinations against a number of diseases — including measles, mumps and flu — so long as individuals have no specific health issues to prevent that.

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