Germany: People should be stockpiling for a disaster

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For the first time since the end of the cold war, the Federal Government wants to animate the Germans to stockpile, so they temporarily self-sufficient in case of a disaster or an armed attack. "The population is paused to hold an individual supply of food ten days", quoted the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of a concept for the civil defence, that the Government would decide on Wednesday.



According to the report, the population in an emergency to protect itself should be able before run on Government measures to ensure an adequate supply of food, water, energy and cash. People should hold to the first aid for a period of five days per two litres of drinking water per person per day, it is stated in the text drawn up by the Ministry of the Interior.

As she reported FAS, the 'need' a reliable alarm system, a hardening of buildings and sufficient capacity in the health system would also discussed. "The civilian support of the armed forces should be a priority; Interfering with the traffic management includes, if the Bundeswehr must move combat units", write the authors in the article.

It was the first strategy in civil defense since the end of the cold war in 1989, it goes. 2012, she had been given by the Budget Committee of the Bundestag in order. In the long concept, hot 69 pages "that an attack on the territory of Germany, which requires a conventional defence, unlikely" was. However, unless necessary, "on such existential development not generally exclude the future adequately to prepare".


According to the "FAS" according to the concept of civil defense, that so-called "hybrid conflicts", which uses an opponent as computer viruses or sabotage, would apply as the greatest danger. Such attacks could cause severe damage - and they could be combined with conventional and weapons of mass destruction if a conflict escalates. With these assumptions is planned also to NATO. Therefore the Member States had committed during the recent Security Summit in Warsaw to strengthen their civil resistance against unconventional threats, according to the newspaper.

http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2016-08/zivile-verteidigung-sicherheit-innenministerium-vorraete-katastrophenfall