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[–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The active war situation has to be declared by the German government.
Declaring it changes a few aspects of how our government works, and how much it can limit individual rights.
The precursor to it is a declaration of a "state of tension".
Neither has ever happened in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, not even when Soviet tanks played a game of chicken with the Americans in Berlin.

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