Bunkers, Emergency Plans and the Army Reserve: Germans Growing Increasingly Uneasy as Peace in Europe Looks More Fragile
Briefly

The changing geopolitical landscape has significantly affected individuals in Germany, like Daniel Gay, Lena Speckmann, and Jenny Zobel, altering their views and lifestyles. The memory of past wars has transitioned into a present reality where many citizens consider the possibility of future conflict involving Germany. Growing unease permeates everyday life, with fears of war, threats of nuclear weapons, and the unpredictable nature of global leaders like Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump further intensifying these concerns.
A new unease has gripped the German population, making itself felt around kitchen tables, in classrooms and in offices. Many are trying to imagine the unimaginable: a war in Europe, triggered by Russia, involving German soldiers, German sons and daughters, sent to the front to defend democracy.
A war on German territory, air raid sirens in Berlin or Munich, even the use of nuclear weapons - all things that haven't been tangible for many, many decades. But they are becoming increasingly so now.
Read at Spiegel
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