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Frontline frauleins; German army trains 150 women for combat after equality ruling.
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
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January 3, 2001
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Byline: MICHAEL WOODHEAD
GERMANY'S first female frontline recruits reported for duty yesterday, increasing the pressure on the British Army to allow women into combat roles.
A total of 42 German women started combat training with their country's army, air force and navy and another 200 are due to follow them soon.
More than 150 of them hope to end up as frontline soldiers.
Britain's generals are strongly opposed to the Government's plans to allow women into the front line.
One officer said: 'Battlefields are ugly places and the thought of women being in the ...
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