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Late '50s Bundeswehr soldier. Armed with a Belgian FN-FAL, he wears the Bundeswehr-Leibermuster, a short-lived camouflage pattern that was also manufactured in Belgium for the newly-formed German army. [Image: Daniel Peterson/The Crowood Press Ltd.]

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Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Germany
Federal Republic of Germany

The Federal Republic of Germany is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

As of October 2006, the German military had almost 9000 troops stationed in foreign countries as part of various international peacekeeping forces, including 1180 troops stationed in Bosnia & Herzegovina; 2844 Bundeswehr soldiers in Kosovo; 750 soldiers stationed as a part of EUFOR in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and 2800 German troops in the NATO-led ISAF force in Afghanistan. As of February 2007, Germany had about 3,000 ISAF troops in Afghanistan, the third largest contingent after the United States (14000) and the United Kingdom (5200).

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