- published: 12 Oct 2015
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The Wehrmacht (German pronunciation: [ˈveːɐ̯maxt] ( listen) (Defence Force) – from German: wehren, to defend and Macht, power, force, cognate to English might) was the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force).
Before the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party assumed control of the German government in 1933, the term Wehrmacht generically described a nation’s “home defence” forces, analogous to the German Streitmacht foreign war forces, thus, Britische Wehrmacht denoted “British defence forces.” The term Wehrmacht is in Article 47 of the 1919 Weimar Constitution, establishing that: Der Reichspräsident hat den Oberbefehl über die gesamte Wehrmacht des Reiches (“The National President holds supreme command of all armed forces of the nation”). From 1919, Germany’s national defence force was known as the Reichswehr, until its renaming as the Wehrmacht on 16 March 1935.
After World War II (1939–45), the Allies abolished the Wehrmacht. In 1955, when the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) remilitarized, its armed forces were named the Bundeswehr ("Federal Defence"). In 1956, upon formal establishment, the armed forces of the Communist, east German Democratic Republic (known for short in English as the GDR, or for short in German as the DDR) were named the Nationale Volksarmee (National People's Army), some of whom, with matériel, were incorporated to the Bundeswehr when the German reunification consolidated the two Germanies in 1990.
What's the use in fighting a stupid meaningless war?
They say that they want peace, but they keep buying more and more.
I don't support these traitors,
it's something I won't do I'd rather get the friends together,
reef and drink some brew,
you're old enough to kill at 18,
but much too young to drink,
it's not that it stops us anyway,
it's just stupid, don't you think?
We can scream in their face and they still don't listen
they're fully set in their ways don't give up,
but just face the facts the world has seen better days
I love brew and it loves me
we have fun religiously fuck their war,
they won't get me 'cause life's too short to pay their fees
if I only had a beer for every bomb they have built,
To get it shape,
we drinksercise and pump aluminum.
Draft beer, not me,