Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, are beginning their deployment in the flood area in the state of Saxony-Anhalt on Friday, a few days earlier than originally planned. The soldiers are on their way and work will begin by midday at the latest, a spokeswoman for the Bundeswehr told dpa on Friday morning. The soldiers are initially set to be be helping in the flood area until January 14. The spokeswoman said that the dykes were visibly saturated, and they needed to be stabilized. From Friday, around 200 soldiers will be on site to fill and distribute a total of 600,000 sandbags. The distric…