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The German Constitutional Court is authorising the army to intervene in exceptional circumstances to deal with terrorist threats on home soil.
Until now, only the police could respond.
Operations of national defence and internal security have been kept strictly separate since the end of the Nazi era, to avoid involving the army against civilians.
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