Typically, only German career military volunteers go to war areas. Germany has only handled about 700 cases post-traumatic distress syndrome with any thoroughness since 1992.
With suicide bombings increasing in Afghanistan and with the increasing number of non-Afghani soldiers being killed in Afghanistan, the problem of untreated veterans is likely to grow in Germany and Eruope. At the same time, society and the military continue to take the matter of post-traumatic stress syndrome too lightly and so fail to implement more regular treatment opportunities for veterans.
Sadly, reviewer Horst Shinzel also writes that “Willdommen Zuhause”, the new ARD film, doesn’t attack the issues and speak up for the needs of German veterans nearly as seriously as is needed or as one would expect from a country that has such a long-term open commitment to keeping troops in Afghanistan.
http://article.wn.com/view/2009/01/07/NATOled_soldier_killed_in_Afghanistan/
Afghan Suicide Bombing Kills two German Soldiers, http://www.upi.com/Related-News/Afghan_suicide_bombing_kills_two_German_soldiers,_five_children/6-493ed34bc7230/
Leimann, Eric, “Eine vom Krieg verletzte Seele”, Wiesbaden Kurrier, 31 January 2009, p.7
“Suicide Bomb Rocks German Embassy in Kabul”, http://www.france24.com/en/20090117-large-blast-near-kabuls-german-embassy-
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