It was a chance, they thought, to capitalize on the city's storied airfield home to the Red Baron in World War I, the Nazis in World War II and the Soviets in the decades that followed to bring in hundreds of jobs and a slice of a huge infusion of federal funds to rebuild Germany's depleted armed forces.
Sixteen of 22 members of the City Council signed a letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz urging him to block the project. The local wing of Alternative for Germany, or AfD, the resurgent far-right political party, held a rally in June where speakers railed against arms sales to Ukraine.
More broadly, many Germans still hold a deep aversion to war and to defense spending in a country whose Nazi past has made it
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