The German army has faced a shortage of equipment for ... German broadcaster ARD revealed that German soldiers tried to hide the lack of arms by replacing heavy machine guns with broomsticks ...

After German reunification, the Storkow experts chose the chameleon for their military coat of arms – a decision intended to dissociate itself from the unit's past in the former communist army ...

The German military must continue to be able to "ensure national and alliance defense," the minister said. "But that doesn't mean we can't do more for Ukraine," she stressed.