Hostage blows his SPD the March : Berlin Bundeswehr-decision ineffective

Berlin's SPD Vice Andreas hostage has explained the decision of his party for a ban on advertising for the German armed forces in schools, in fact, for ineffective. The German armed forces should be allowed to visit, according to the hostage schools in Berlin – just as in the past, not to advertise themselves. "We have a ban on advertising, no prohibition of Information for the armed forces in schools is decided," the Senator for the interior on Tuesday "n-tv.de".

The visits of youth not to be affected by the party decision by officers to schools. Were meant to be in the party Congress decision events of career advisors, with the objective to recruit staff for the armed forces. "Each school is free to invite the armed forces," said hostage.

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The Berlin SPD had decided on the weekend to your Congress, to complement Berlin's school law, the passage: "The military organizations will be allowed to advertise in schools in Berlin for the service and work in the military field." The SPD has officers also included Youth.

minors be would have to in an age, in which the Central life and values are still developing, there was the national Congress. "Accordingly, susceptible you are to military Propaganda and ignorance to the real dangers of a military operation," reads the justification in the decision. And: "For to Kill and to Die makes no advertising." In the meantime, the question of whether the SPD has only taken a decision but Because career advisors may not already advertise regularly in schools to young for the armed forces.

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The military fought Commissioner of the German Bundestag, Hans-Peter Bartels (SPD), rejected the reasoning of the Berlin SPD, that "Kill and Die" no advertising should be. "The state defense order of the basic law as to defame advertising for to Kill and to Die', is quite remarkable," he said, the Oldenburg "NordWest-Zeitung". "If that was supposed to be a distancing of our Parliament army, then I have zero understanding of," said the SPD politician. The Bundeswehr'm in the middle of the society. "It is not a secret order, or a state within the state, but also because the social Democrats have set the so, part of the democratic order of our basic law."

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Also, the SPD party leader Andrea Nahles has distanced itself from the decision of the Berlin SPD against the youth of the Bundeswehr officers in schools. "The vast majority of the SPD looks completely different," said Nahles on Tuesday on the sidelines of the group meeting. The decision of the Berlin Enjoyed a single voice in the party. The SPD was rather glad, "the fact that we have a parliamentary army". The party Chairman added: "That is to say, the soldiers are in the schools welcome." This also meant that "the German armed forces should be enshrined in our democratic polity." (dpa/epd)