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The Bundestag criticized the head of the chancellor's department for words about the supply of weapons to Kiev

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Wolfgang Schmidt earlier spoke in support of the position of the German government regarding the supply of heavy weapons to Kiev, which still evades the transfer of such equipment to UkraineBERLIN, October 15.

/tass/. The chairman of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, sharply criticized the statements of the head of the department of the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Wolfgang Schmidt, who compared calls to supply Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine with the hopes of the Third Reich for a V2 ballistic missile.

"I suggest that Wolfgang Schmidt deepen his knowledge of weapons a little. Then he would have realized just as quickly that the comparison with Nazi weapons is not only completely inappropriate, but simply wrong," Strack-Zimmerman told the DPA news agency on Saturday.

On Thursday, at a discussion event in Berlin, Schmidt spoke in support of the position of the German government regarding the supply of heavy weapons to Kiev, which still evades the transfer of such equipment to Ukraine. At the same time, the head of the Federal Chancellor's department compared calls for the supply of German Leopard 2 tanks with the hopes that were pinned in Nazi Germany on the V2 rocket, which some called a "miracle weapon".

"Sometimes I'm tempted to call it the German V2 syndrome," Schmidt said, "that there is a miracle weapon that, as if by magic, guarantees that the goal will be achieved." "And now Leopard 2 <...> is a miracle weapon that will end the war. This will not happen," he concluded.

V2 (Vergeltungswaffe-2) is the world's first long-range ballistic missile developed by German designer Werner von Braun and adopted by the Wehrmacht at the end of World War II. It was used for intimidation, hitting mainly civilians. The territory of Great Britain, especially London, was mainly shelled. 

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