Germany exported weapons of war for 1.51 billion euros last year - the highest value since 2017. More than 60 percent of these went to non-NATO countries, the European Union and comparable countries.
Deliveries to these so-called third countries are particularly controversial because some of them have been criticized for human rights violations or are involved in regional conflicts.
The numbers come from a response from the Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection to a request from Left-wing MP Sevim Dagdelen.
According to this, the value of war weapons deliveries increased in 2021 for the third year in a row.
In 2020, exports were still recorded for 1.38 billion euros.
War weapons exports form only a part of German arms exports.
These include, for example, submarines, tanks and combat aircraft, but not armaments such as armored ambulances.
The War Weapons Control Act regulates which weapons are included.
The ten main recipient countries last year were Egypt, Israel, Qatar, Turkey, Great Britain, Norway and the EU countries Italy, the Netherlands, Latvia and Austria.
The left-wing politician Dagdelen mainly criticized the deliveries to the NATO partner Turkey.
"The fact that Turkey is one of the largest recipients of German weapons of war, despite illegal invasions of Iraq, Syria and Libya and military threats towards Greece and Cyprus, makes any invocation of a value-based foreign policy by the traffic light government a mere farce," she said.