Bundeswehr receives channel on YouTube
In future, the German army wants to inform citizens directly with a Bundeswehr premium channel on YouTube. The aim is to give them a "comprehensive, realistic and, above all, transparent picture of everyday life in the Bundeswehr".
The Federal Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that a special focus will be on the "operational reality of soldiers". The Channel is divided into six sections: Operations, Bundeswehr, News, Training, Family & Service and Classix. To start with, there are around 80 videos that can be rated and commented on - even if they are only released after they have been viewed by the editorial team. The launch comes just under a week after the Wikileaks leaks of over 92,000 Afghanistan documents. The new channel is therefore under suspicion that the Ministry of Defence does not want to leave the sovereignty of information on the internet entirely to organizations such as Wikileaks, according to the industry service Meedia.de.
