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The army soon on the side of Israel against Iran? The Federal Office is issuing a Persian language phrasebooks for soldiers, and records to be read as: "I come from Cologne," "I belong to the UN peacekeeping troops," "Iran is a beautiful country". Furthermore, there is the Persian translation mliltärischer commands like "stop stop."

The reason for the Member of Parliament Inge Hoeger (The Left Party) dig deeper. Thankfully, one is on youtube video set with the woman Hoger questions and the answers of the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Defence Christian Schmidt (CSU).

What you hear in the sequence is hard to believe:

Schmidt winds up clearly, obviously feels the questions as a single suggestion that is aggressive even towards the end. The Geschwurbel can see, however, that the Dictionary is intended to improve the communication skills of the soldiers.

Then drop words like "Israeli President recently in Parliament", "threat of Israel", "Israel's right to exist", "Iranian threat".

Schmidt recalls the Merkel's promise that "an attack on Israel like an attack on us".

What can we conclude?

Schmidt adds that the phrasebook would be needed in Afghanistan because there were people who speak Farsi - but admits that the North is not the case. [Where the army is stationed].

Then he tries a particularly bizarre reason: The German aid agency "Help" (NGO) would work with Iranian authorities, who have invested in school buildings. There must therefore be held communication.

It follows a dig at the "Young World", which has also taken up the issue, and its "crude" ideas.

Can we accept as citizens Christian Schmidt's remarks like that?

Let's take a look at the map of different ethnicities and languages ​​in Iran and Afghanistan:

We see in the picture on the broad belt of the Persian language, which is mainly through Iran and on through Afghanistan to Tajikistan hienein pulls. However, we see that are recessed in the north and south Afghanistan.

Here is a more precise language map of Afghanistan. We see the wide "green belt" of the Persian language in the middle. In the Pashtun south. In the north are two main languages ​​are spoken, which are quite different from the Persian and Pashto.

Standing next to an ethno-linguistic map of Afghanistan. In the north we see a large area in pink. Here is spoken predominantly Turkmen. Green can be seen in the Pashtun area. Brown finally the Tajik language area. Kunduz, the city was ordered in the vicinity of the attack on the tanker hijacked by the Bundeswehr is, incidentally, in the Pashtun language area, race, therefore, which has a particularly strong way to enter Pakistan. The Pashtun have the most a few Persian words in common, who speaks Farsi can not automatically veständigen also Pashtuns. (That said, a Persian language teachers).

To summarize: In the north, where the Bundeswehr is stationed there, we meet three languages: Predominantly Turkmen, Tajik and Pashtun this. Let yourself: The German flag waving in the north, where Persian is spoken ... no!

HP is now before me the Voice of Federal Language Office: It found a lot more military commands, as I assumed, including "no further", "Are you armed? '" We must search you, "Give" off their weapons "The phrasebook is much more in 2008 and a reprint of 2003.
That does not detract from my argument, however, because I here the remarkable response of the Defence Ministry State Secretary Parlamentarichen in Vordegrund. And that was not: "So one thing we print routinely in all languages! etc.

Tags: Afghanistan , Federal Office of Languages ​​, the Bundeswehr , Inge Hoeger , Iran , Israel

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