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For the first time since the Cold War
the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use
in a national emergency.
Some
opposition MPs said the new civil defence concept, to go before ministers on
Wednesday, was scaremongering.
Citizens are
advised to store enough food to last them 10 days, because initially a disaster
might put national emergency services beyond reach.
Five days'
water - two litres (half a gallon) per person daily - is advised.
The German
news website Frankfurter
Allgemeine (FAZ) said the new concept was set out in a 69-page German
Interior Ministry document.
The document
said "an attack on German territory, requiring conventional defence of the
nation, is unlikely". But, it said, a major security threat to the nation
in future could not be ruled out, so civil defence measures were necessary.
Soon,
Germans began tweeting ironically under the hashtag "Hamsterkaeufe"
(panic-buying). Read more >>
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