Merchants of Death

Germany likes to keep its hands clean — but its coffers full.

The peaceable darling of postwar Europe, Germany is quietly one of the largest arms exporters in the world — and it has been since long before its billions of dollars’ worth of arms provision to Ukraine. Despite domestic disarmament following World War II, German manufacturers would soon peddle their wares abroad. The industry is supposedly governed […]

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