A Rare Look At the Post-WWII British-German Allied Army Programme | Our History

A German Army marches again. German specialist officers are training in Britain. British officers have Germans under their command on the Continent.

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For the new German Divisions - twelve of them by next year - come under the direct command of N.A.T.O as part of the defense of Western Europe. What sort of an army is Germany rasing today? Look at Life sent it's cameras to Germany to find out. They concentrated on the mountain troops, for a great part of central Europe is mountinous and needs to be defended. Here, in scenes which now appear on the screen for the first time, is an idea of the thoroughness and variety of the training which the Germans are giving to their young conscripts, to turn them into mountaineers as well as soldiers. Here, too, are scenes of joint manouvers with other N.A.T.O forces. British and Germain Tank Commanders combine in an operation which links, somewhat ironically, the heirs of the Desert Rats with those of the Afrika Korps. In the words of the commentary "No one suggests this work is particularly noble. But few doubt that it's necessary"

This film was first broadcast: 1960

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