Re: Desinvolture et al.

[Bertil Haggman <bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se>]

scott.denham@rzhub.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote:
 
> Unless I'm mistaken, it seems that only *some* German soldiers (the
> border service of the DDR's Nationale Volksarmee) we're doing the
> shooting, and only from their side. And as recent trials have
> demonstrated, most of them didn't do this "easily," though some
> surely did.  We can't know yet, of course, how many DDR border guards
> didn't shoot at all when they "should have" or how many shot and
> missed on purpose.

What I think, Professor, is that Walter Hedderich was referring
to the possibility, in an event of World War III, that East German
and West German soldiers might possibly shoot at each other.

Recent research in East German archives confirm early reports
that the Soviets planned to use massive nuclear attacks on
for instance Denmark, where Polish, East German and Soviet
shock troops were to be used on the Northern German plain to
attack Jutland and the Danish islands to secure the Great Belt
and the Oeresund passages for Baltic Read Banner Fleet based
in Leningrad (I believe the Russian Navy is still using the
designation Leningrad). In the event of such an attack German
would have fought against German.

EJ was very concerned during the Cold War that a nuclear war
would be unleashed and discussed nuclear arms matters with
for instance the Italian writer Alberto Moravia.

Greetings

Bertil Haggman
bertil.haggman@helsingborg.se