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The number of Bundeswehr soldiers participating in international operations in Afghanistan and receiving with the trauma is growing steadily. This information is published on April 28 issued in Halle newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. In 2007 there were only 145 soldiers with post-traumatic complications, while in 2008 have been affected by 245 soldiers in 2009 and even more - 466 soldiers. Such figures led a leading psychiatrist of the Bundeswehr hospital in Berlin - Colonel Army Medical Service, Peter Zimmerman. Zimmerman believes that the number of troops will increase. Participation in military operations will always be accompanied by this problem, with the intensification of fighting, it only worsen. The Colonel finds that the multiplication of the number of mental trauma among soldiers of the Bundeswehr is also due to blatant unpopularity operations in Afghanistan in Germany. 5b 4b 3b 2b 1b