German Defense Minister Peter Struck said on Wednesday he was sure that anti-Jewish views endorsed by a top general were not widespread in the army and stressed all soldiers were taught in-depth about the Nazi past.
Struck fired the commander of the elite KSK special forces, Reinhard Guenzel, on Tuesday after the brigadier-general wrote a letter of support, on army notepaper, to a lawmaker who sparked outrage with comments widely seen as belittling the Holocaust.
Struck said soldiers receive extensive training about Germany's "terrible past." Regular studies of the attitudes of conscripts and professional soldiers, from privates to generals, are made to ensure the Bundeswehr remains anchored in democracy.
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