76 Years Later German Tanks 'Roll Back' Into Poland

Troops from the US and Europe are taking part in exercises as Russia flexes its muscles (Sergeant Paul Peterson )

Sunday Times: German tanks roll back into Poland

THE tiny Polish town of Swietoszow did not officially exist during the Cold War; as home to a massive but secret Soviet tank force ready to strike at the West, it was removed from all public maps and records.

Last week Nato used the base for the first big deployment of a new special force to defend eastern Europe from an increasingly expansionist Russia.

American Black Hawk helicopters thundered in the skies as German tanks rolled from across the nearby border, along with troops and hardware from seven other nations that make up Nato’s Spearhead Force, which was set up last year in response to Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.

WNU Editor: This story is behind a subscription wall, but what I find interesting about it is that 76 years later .... what started a World War is now .... a normal training exercise. On a side note this exercise is revealing some major differences between Germany and Poland on the placement of NATO bases in Poland. Germany says (correctly in my opinion) that establishing NATO military bases in former communist countries in eastern Europe would violate a 1997 NATO agreement with Russia, but Poland is disagreeing .... Germany must accept NATO bases in Poland - president-elect's aide (Channel News Asia).