Foreign Minister Wadephul: The 🇩🇪 Government is very proud that, together with our friends 🇵🇱&🇳🇴, we are able to put together another major package – one that is essential to supporting 🇺🇦. $500 million is a substantial sum, and Germany is contributing 200 million of that. 1/
And today we stand united in a #NATO that is strong and capable of taking action. These two Allies in particular show that, together, we are determined to actively counter Russian aggression. Indeed, we, too, welcome all talks conducted with the aim of ending this war. 2/

On #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, #WeRemember the millions of victims of Nazi terror: Jews, Roma, homosexuals, disabled people, prisoners of war – people who were deemed "unworthy". We Germans must not forget what happened. And we will not forget what can happen. 1/4 Each year, the Bundestag holds a Ceremony of Remembrance for the victims of National Socialism. This year’s ceremony starts at 10.00 a.m. on 31 January with a speech by Bundestag President Bärbel Bas. Guest speakers: Holocaust survivor Eva Szepesi & journalist Marcel Reif. 2/4

We are strengthening #NATO’s eastern flank. Our increased engagement in Lithuania 🇱🇹, Slovakia 🇸🇰 and the Baltic States is a response to the war of aggression in #Ukraine. We stand united with our Allies. #WeAreNATO

See below for further information on our missions. 🧵1/8

https://twitter.com/BMVg_Bundeswehr/status/1529464632846557186

#Bundeswehr #NATO missions:
👉 enhanced Forward Presence @BG_LTU_eFP
👉 enhanced Vigilance Activities @NATO_MN_BG_SVK
👉 enhanced air policing in the Baltics
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The Federal President is visiting soldiers from #NATO’s #eFP mission, part of the NRF, in Lithuania 🇱🇹 today. But what do these abbreviations mean? Over the next few days, we’ll try to explain the most important terms, starting with NRF, which stands for @NATO Response Force. 1/4

https://twitter.com/BMVg_Bundeswehr/status/1499376342655287296

NATO Response Force, enhanced Forward Presence – here are the most important terms: 👇
👉NRF = NATO RESPONSE FORCE = A highly ready force made up of land, maritime and air forces who can carry out various kinds of military operations very shortly after being activated.
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Strong Commitment to #NATO!

To sum up our many announcements during the past days and weeks, we have prepared this 🧵 to keep our followers up to date:
 
👉 Germany 🇩🇪 is the second largest troop contributor to @NATO after the USA!
 
1 ‼️ Germany’s contribution to the NRF and additional engagement to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank now comprises over 15,000 soldiers and is thus a major contribution to the Alliance.
 
👉 13,700 soldiers from the #Bundeswehr in the NATO Response Force (NRF).

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Remembrence means #reconciliation: Germany accepts full historical responsibility for the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. An example of this acceptance is the famous ‘Warschauer Kniefall’, of Chancellor Brandt, in Warsaw in 1970. #75Liberation #NeverForget Remembrance means keeping the memory alive: fewer and fewer contemporary witnesses can give first-hand accounts of the crimes of World War II. Germany promotes international projects, memorials and meeting places. For us, this is a matter of conviction. #75Liberation #NeverForget

Ambassador Lucas addressed guests at our reception at the occasion of the 29th anniversary of German unity and the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin. These are the key lines: 1/ As a historian and diplomat I sometimes ask myself what dates like the 3rd of October 1990 or the 9th of November 1989 tell us today, three decades later. (…) I will limit myself to some brief remarks on three lessons that might be drawn from the years 1989 and 1990.