Not long ago wearing a uniform around an average town in Germany could get you beaten up; and even today it draws frowns, says Jan Strohmer, a naval commander in Kiel. That is because many Germans, at least in the former West, have since the second world war been militant-ly pacifist. In America signs vowing that "We support our troops" adorn porches and cars. In Germany the most striking thing about the army is how invisible it is.
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