{"id":332775,"date":"2017-10-30T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-military-builds-training-ground-for-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2017-10-30T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:52:27","slug":"german-military-builds-training-ground-for-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/german-military-builds-training-ground-for-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"German military builds training ground for civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>German military builds training ground for civil war<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Johannes Stern<br \/>\n    <br \/>30 October 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Beginning next year, German soldiers will be able to undertake house-to-house fighting and preparation for domestic Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) operations \u201cin the most realistic environment\u201d (Defence Ministry), on a mega-property costing more than 140 million euros. \u201cSchn\u00f6ggersburg\u201d, as the urban environment is dubbed, \u201cpresents typical elements of an urban conurbation in order to optimally prepare soldiers for deployments in built-up areas,\u201d said the Bundeswehr in its official invitation to the press.<\/p>\n<p>The Bundeswehr took possession last Thursday of part of this artificial town north of Magdeburg, which will form the \u201cArmy Combat Training Centre\u201d (G\u00dcZ). Schn\u00f6ggersburg is an \u201curban conurbation\u201d with more than 500 buildings, 300 cabins, sports facilities, bridges, an industrial area, an old town with a marketplace, a government district, a slum and a sacred building. In addition, it includes an airfield, a sewage system, a two-lane highway and a 350-metre-long underground line, the only subway system in Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is being created here is certainly unique,\u201d boasted the parliamentary secretary of state of the Defence Ministry, Markus Gr\u00fcbel, in his welcome speech about the enormous dimensions of the project. \u201cThese first parts of the urban conurbation, which today are being handed over to the Combat Training Centre of the Army on schedule, find nothing comparable in the type of construction and size, certainly in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant-General Frank Leidenberger left no doubt as to what the Bundeswehr is preparing in Schn\u00f6ggersburg: \u201cThe missions of the past have taught us that the environment in which we may have to fight is no longer open space but&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/10\/30\/bund-o30.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 German military builds training ground for civil war By Johannes Stern 30 October 2017 Beginning next year, German soldiers will be able to undertake house-to-house fighting and preparation for domestic Bundeswehr (Armed Forces) operations \u201cin the most realistic environment\u201d (Defence Ministry), on a mega-property costing more than 140 million euros. \u201cSchn\u00f6ggersburg\u201d, as the urban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-332775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}