This Town Doesn’t Like Rearmament. But It’s Ready to Build Tanks. NYT | Top Stories By: Sam Gurwitt 9 October 2025 at 20:55 In Germany’s depressed East, even far-right opponents of support for Ukraine have embraced the jobs that come with new weapons production. © Matthias Wehnert/Imago, via AlamyAn armored transport vehicle at the Alstom factory in Görlitz, Germany, this year. The company KNDS has taken over the plant, which used to produce train cars, to instead make tanks and other military vehicles.