Sunday, January 22, 2023

German Military Music: I Like the Tune, But Can They Dance To It?

 

Will Germany send in the Leopards to Ukraine? Im Sturmwind dahin

I have no idea, but the Panzerlied is a kick-ass tune, and I am happy to see it is used once again by the Bundeswehr. It shouldn't have been banished due to its origins in the WWII Wehrmacht armored troops. 

It's hard to remember, now that Germany has the smallest army in NATO, but at the height of the Cold War it had about 4,000 Leopard 2s. Today it has about 350.

2 comments:

James said...

I never thought I'd live to see German armor in the Ukraine again, talk about passion

TSB said...

Well, in WWII the Russian army (really the Red Army) lost three million men fighting in Ukraine. This could be a long conflict.