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  • 9 - Protection from the Protector

  • from Part Three - Tensions between Neighbors
  • Edited by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr, State University of New York, Detlef Junker, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
  • Book:
    GIs in Germany
    Published online:
    05 October 2013
    Print publication:
    02 September 2013, pp 212-234

  • Summary

    On September 9, 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States intended to temporarily multiply the number of American troops in Europe. He strongly emphasized that a "basic element" of the decision was the government's expectation that the U.S. commitment would be matched by the Europeans. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard emphasized the great importance the German government attached to the troops and tried to re-assure President Lyndon Johnson with the remark that in his judgment the GIs were quite happy in Germany. Vietnam accelerated the shift in American attitudes on the political situation in Europe. Richard Nixon announced that the United States would "under no circumstances" make a unilateral reduction in its commitment to NATO: Any reduction in NATO forces will only take place on a multilateral basis and on the basis of what those who are lined up against the NATO forces - what they might do.