In: Journal of European integration history: Revue d'histoire de l'intégration européenne = Zeitschrift für Geschichte der europäischen Integration, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 35-56
In: Journal of European integration history: Revue d'histoire de l'intégration européenne = Zeitschrift für Geschichte der europäischen Integration, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 35-56
Military cooperation was the hall mark of the relations between Portugal & the Federal Republic of Germany between 1958 & 1968. Whereas at the outset military relations were only marginally affected by political constraints, towards the end of the 1960's those constraints had grown to dominate the Portuguese-German relationship. In this period, Portugal authorized the use by the German Air Force of an air base (Beja) that would serve for the training of German pilots in peacetime & for strategic & logistic support, should war come upon Europe. As a counter part, Portugal obtained from the Federal Republic armament & military equipment (planes, machine guns, munitions, etc.) indispensable for the military survival of the regime during the colonial wars. Adapted from the source document.