Thanks!
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 19:52:24 +0200
>To: mahan@microworks.net
>Subject: Re: Thanks!
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>From: BWV_WIESBADEN@t-online.de (Tim Lanzendoerfer)
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> > And a question to Tim: Do you know from what date the > Bundeswehr dates
> > its existence? Are there regiments that trace lineage back through
> > WWII and I to Prussian and other armies? (I could call the German
> > Army Liasion Officer here at Fort Huachuca, but asking on the list is
> > more fun.)
>
>It is 12 November 1956, the 201st birthday of General Scharnhorst. I do not
>believe there are any regiments with a true lineage back into the “good old
>days”. This is especially so since we would never have used regimental honors
>(if there were any) of Nazi-Germany, and I’d say none of the Kaiser’s Army
>either. The Bundeswehr is also not structured like the Prussian Army or the
>British Army (i.e. naming the regiments instead of pure numerical system),
>and also partly because most of Prussia was in East Germany.
>Nevertheless, you’d better ask the liasion officer, just to correct >my mistakes
>:)
>
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>Amateur Naval Historian | responsibility. I will do my
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