Fallex 62

Fallex 62 (case exercise ' 62) was a military participated. Should atomic Erstschlag and a following large offensive on Western Europe to be simulated.

The consequences would be, as turned out, for West Germany of a disaster equaled. Already in the first days civilian losses in two digit million height had to be deplored to back-throw the German Federal Armed Forces would completely uncoordinatedly have proceeded and therefore would have been unable to stop the advance of the troops Warsaw Pact let alone the Soviet invasion. The result of the planning game was treated as "strictly confidentially", but the German news magazine minutes were passed on and published in expenditure 41/1962 in excerpts.

From this situation the in such a way specified developed and finally to the resignation of the Secretary of Defense led.