Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger wants to include the war in the timetables. The president of the teachers' association is in favor of it.
Bundeswehr officers also provide “useful support” Several education politicians criticized the move. "We have to get our children ready for school and not ready for war," said the education policy spokesman for the Union parliamentary group, Thomas Jarzombek (CDU), to “Bild’s” newspaper.