"J'accuse". . . in 1984: The expedited dismissal of a West German general reminiscent of the Dreyfus affair and the 1938 Fritsch scandal
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2015.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : As Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), General Günter Kießling (1925-2009) was the highest-ranking German general in NATO. His dismissal, on the grounds of false accusations that he was homosexual, came in 1983, at the height of the conflict over the deployment in Europe of new intermediate-range missiles. So what was behind this unexpected dismissal of the general in 1983, which has sometimes been compared to the Dreyfus affair in France and the 1938 Fritsch affair in Germany? Internal documents from the West German Ministry of Defence, which are now accessible at the Military Division of the German Federal Archives in Freiburg/Breisgau, challenge the notion of a homosexual affair.
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As Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), General Günter Kießling (1925-2009) was the highest-ranking German general in NATO. His dismissal, on the grounds of false accusations that he was homosexual, came in 1983, at the height of the conflict over the deployment in Europe of new intermediate-range missiles. So what was behind this unexpected dismissal of the general in 1983, which has sometimes been compared to the Dreyfus affair in France and the 1938 Fritsch affair in Germany? Internal documents from the West German Ministry of Defence, which are now accessible at the Military Division of the German Federal Archives in Freiburg/Breisgau, challenge the notion of a homosexual affair.
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