German Army

German Army posts cover the Bundeswehr that exists today and the historical land forces that came before it. Articles look at the structure of the modern Bundeswehr Heer with its mechanised brigades, the post-1955 founding under West German rearmament, NATO integration, the Wehrmacht of 1935 to 1945, the smaller Reichswehr of the Weimar period, the Imperial German Army of 1871 to 1918 and the older Prussian Army that produced its officer tradition. There are practical notes on conscription history, on the move to a fully professional force in 2011 and on the recent Zeitenwende rearmament programme.