In the context of the “Operational Plan Germany” which the German Defense Ministry has worked on since March 2023, one of the alarming details, which the commander of the Hamburg military district, Col. Michael Giss, revealed in an interview yesterday with the daily Die Welt.
Colonel Giss remarked: “If we really have to demonstrate a credible deterrent on NATO’s eastern border, then you can’t just play it out in two weeks like a maneuver. Then life in Central Europe will change diametrically. That means, for example, transferring 800,000 soldiers including equipment through Europe to the East in two months, organizing transports of the wounded and prisoners of war, and also a large number of refugees from the Baltic states or Poland on a scale that dwarfs anything we have ever seen before. We will then be living in an everyday state of threat. Then it will be a question of supplying the population, air protection, medical care in a medical system that also has to look after severely wounded soldiers.”
Germany’s logistics infrastructure, including the seaport of Hamburg, will be made fit for the task to prepare against an alleged Russian threat to attack NATO with conventional weapons by no later than the end of this decade, Giss says.
