Stockpile food in case of attack, Germany tells citizens

24 August 2016, 4:12 pm

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Germany is urging its population to stockpile food and water in case of terrorist or cyberattack, as it adopts its first civil defense strategy since the end of the Cold War.

While acknowledging that “an attack on German territory requiring conventional defense is unlikely,” Germany should be “sufficiently prepared in case of an existence-threatening development in the future that cannot be ruled out,” a new strategy document says. It encourages people to stockpile sufficient food for 10 days, and water to last five.

Germans are taking to social media to deride the strategy, with the hashtag #hamsterkaeufe (squirreling away) and photos of the furry rodent widely circulating on Twitter.