You can try, select the picture column on the search engine, type the word "East Germany", the photos that appear can be divided into three categories - the top and the largest amount is the "East German Shepherd", followed by the East German People's Army and the two Germans are divided schematic.
The East German army, which once made the entire Western world extremely jealous, to this day, the exposure is even worse than that of dogs, which really makes others feel embarrassed for them.
After the reunification of the two Germanys, both the government and the people tried their best to dilute the existence of East Germany.
At the government level, it goes without saying that Germany was unified in the form of the integration of East Germany into West Germany, and after reunification, the name of West Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, was used, and the GDR disappeared on its own.
At the same time, the members of the leadership of the former GDR were either imprisoned or bought out of their working years to be "laid off early", and the government still had the final say, and even later, the official definition of East Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany became Unrechtstaat , the "illegal state".
In order to flatten the development gap between the East and the West, the unified federal government has always insisted on generous financial subsidies to the East German region, and the living standards of the former East German residents have been significantly improved. Therefore, although for a long time after reunification, they still felt all kinds of discomfort, and they always encountered various discrimination when they went to West Germany to work and study, but from the relevant polls over the years, the vast majority of East Germans were still relatively satisfied with the improvement of life and did not want to go back to the past.
In this way, in addition to film and television dramas or some hotels and restaurants will choose to engage in some themes related to the "East German complex" to be nostalgic, the entire East Germany and the East German People's Army that once threatened the side were quietly drowned in the dust of history.
The time shifted to October 7, 1989.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a grand military parade was held in East Berlin, the capital of the GDR.
As the Panzer Corps and the Army infantry phalanx proudly walked through Karl-Marx Straße, the port city of Rostock held a naval ship parade at the same time, and a large fleet of ships docked neatly at the docks for review by Theodor Hoffmann, commander of the East German Navy and deputy minister of defense.
This was followed by a frogman performance by the KPA special operations unit. Heavily armed, they either jumped into the sea from a high-speed torpedo boat and boarded the ship through a rope, or jumped out of the air from the helicopter and maneuvered the paraglider to the surface.
All the participants and visitors did not realize that this was the last parade of the KPA.
A year later, the enlistment oath of generations of the East German KPA – "If I disobey the solemn oath of the army flag, I will be willing to accept the sanctions of the laws of the Republic and the contempt of the working people" will go with the wind.
These officers and men of the People's Army who hold iron rice bowls will also join the job search team of the employment army with the "severance pay" lost.
More than a month after the grand military parade celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, and the two Germanys began the process of reunification calmly.
At this time, the German Socialist Unionist Party and its general secretary Honecker, who had lost their mass base, were quickly abandoned by their own people after the fall of the Berlin Wall; the notorious East German secret service, Stasi and his last minister, Milck, were also seriously liquidated.
Sandwiched between these powerful government institutions and the privileged classes was the awkward KPA.
The KPA consisted mainly of four parts: ground troops, people's navy, aviation forces and border guards, and by the end of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, there were 170,000 people.
Although the East German People's Army is not too large, it is well-equipped and of high quality, and as the forefront of the confrontation between the East and the West, it has been cultivated by the Soviet Union as an "elite division" that takes the lead, and its combat effectiveness is still quite good.
In September 1990, in accordance with the Unification Agreement promulgated by the Federal Republic of Germany, the KPA was re-"reorganized".
The so-called "dispatch" is only a euphemism, and for most of the officers and men of the East German People's Army, it is more like letting them disband themselves.
Among them, the East German special forces were integrated into the German Bundeswehr as a whole, and at the same time classified into the NATO combat sequence.
This force, which had been carefully cultivated by the Soviet Union for a little more than half a century, belonged to the elite forces of the People's Army; and they were very familiar with the Soviet military system, tactics and tactics, and for the Federal Republic of Germany and nato as a whole, it was like a large piece of fragrant pie falling from the sky, and they had to laugh out loud when they slept happily.
East German special operations forces in training
Of course, the special operators who were accepted by West Germany were all "masses" and did not include the officers and men of the East German United Socialist Party (Communist Party).
In the same way, for the remaining branches of the armed forces, those with party membership were almost all passed away by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany without hesitation.
In addition, in addition to party members and officers and soldiers, there are also cadres of ideological and political education, propaganda departments, intelligence departments, and personnel related to military tribunals at all levels who have been "one-size-fits-all." These are the roles in the military with obvious ideological overtones.
At the same time, female combatants in the East German People's Army were also "dismissed" by all.
This is largely because, compared with East Germany, which has been "revolutionized" and called on women to "rise to the top of the sky", West Germany is much more conservative, and the whole social atmosphere does not encourage women to go out to work, let alone join the army to fight.
Let's look at the 1986 figures. At this time, under the influence of Western feminist thought, the proportion of professional women in West Germany reached a post-war peak of 50.3%, while the proportion of professional women in East Germany in the same year was 91.3%.
The "Lady" on a Farm in East Germany
As early as World War II, there were no female soldiers in the entire Nazi German military structure, and women in uniform were called "female assistants of the Wehrmacht", which belonged to the civilian series and were not informal soldiers. After the war, this tradition was inherited by the West German Bundeswehr, and it was not until the 1970s that women in the West German army were awarded official ranks.
By the time the Bundeswd reorganized the East German People's Army in 1990, there were very few female soldiers in the logistics, medical, and administrative units of the West German army.
In addition, almost all of them were dismissed en masse, as well as the "border guards" with a very bad reputation. Because, since the 1960s, this army has been responsible for carrying out the relevant orders to shoot at fugitives on the border between germany and Germany, and once owed a "blood debt".
Standing on the Berlin Wall is the border guards
These "one-size-fits-all" KPA officers and men received a one-time salary of about half a year as compensation, and then left it to fend for themselves.
The rest of the medically qualified, had no party background, and the "innocent" junior officers (lieutenants) and soldiers of the East German People's Army were absorbed into the Bundeswehr, and everything adapted from scratch.
When it comes to school officers, whether they can be retained or not must be decided by an officer selection committee set up by the Federal Republic of Germany. They will combine the ideological background, professional quality and physical condition of the assessed subjects, and conduct screening, and eventually they will be able to continue their military careers, not even one-tenth of them.
After all, like the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Communist Party of East Germany, which was supported by the Soviet Union, as the ruling party, had a huge influence on the People's Army, and the proportion of party members among the middle and senior officers of the People's Army was significantly higher.
The Soviet Army and the East German People's Army had a good conversation
According to the regulations of the federal government, the school-level officers who are passed out will have a "transition period" of half a year, during which they can receive 70% of their original monthly salary every month, or retire after receiving 7,000 marks at a time, and then they have to go to fend for themselves; and those school officers who are fortunate enough to be retained are also generally "demoted" in the Federal German Army, and a lieutenant colonel in the People's Army may be "reduced" to become a captain in the Federal German Army.
Even more tragic are the general officers who are a large number of years old and have passed the age of employment and career choice.
These people were forced to retire directly before October 3, 1990, and one did not stay, receiving a monthly "pension" of DM 2010.
In this way, basically they have been "arranged" to retire
The KPA officers and men who were incorporated into the Federal German Army, although they were treated and paid the same as those of the same level as the West Germans, still had to go through a two-year probationary period and were ordered to retire if something went wrong.
Of the 170,000 KPA, only a mere 30,000 were recruited into the Federal Republic of Germany's army after screening, and luckily signed a two-year contract from 1991.
The remaining hundreds of thousands of former East German People's Army, in order to make a living, also began to calm their minds, entered the society, and received various vocational skills training provided by the federal government for the unemployed.
The ability of grass-roots officers and soldiers to adapt to social transformation is generally better. On the one hand, it is because they are young and have great development potential; on the other hand, it is also related to the long-term popularity of the former East German People's Army to engage in "economic production" on production lines in various walks of life.
This can also be regarded as a former socialist feature, and the former Soviet Union and now North Korea have similar operations.
In addition to temporary work such as harvesting crops, engaging in infrastructure construction, or clearing snow, the East German People's Army has long sent middle- and lower-level officers and men to factories and mining enterprises to "exert combat effectiveness" on production lines in the form of militarized management.
Therefore, during the enlistment period, many grass-roots officers and men were actually trained to be skilled industrial workers and mastered several crafts.
These people, in Germany, where manufacturing is booming, are obviously not worried about their jobs.
The most embarrassing thing is that those who were once "middle-level".
As mentioned earlier, although the high-level generals have no honorable status, they have a pension guarantee. A large number of school-level officers who have been eliminated, most of them are middle-aged, old and young, in addition to meetings and speeches to make reports, there is little survival skills that can be used, in order to make a living, they can only put down the shelf and go to do manual work such as drivers, porters, security guards, warehouses and logistics workers.
Along with the "Red Prussia", there was also a large amount of Soviet equipment.
Except for a small number of advanced weapons that can be used for reference and cracking, most of the hands of the KPA belong to the "big road goods" that are dirty and backward in the eyes of the West Germans. Moreover, it is difficult to be compatible between Soviet goods and NATO goods, and counting maintenance and maintenance, it has become a big burden on the country's finances.
As a result, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany either destroyed or sold half of the cold war heritage and threw it on the international market.
For example, some MiG-29s were sold cheaply to Poland (the most generous one was in 2003, when Germany "sold" the remaining 22 MiG-29s to Poland for a symbolic price of 1 euro each), Bulgaria, and Greece and Turkey also received a number of ships and light weapons. By the way, the KPA's distinctive uniforms and steel helmets have also found their new owners.
The East German M56 helmet in the Turkish army, however, the one in the red circle, seems to be wearing the opposite
Some East German equipment also flowed into the former Yugoslavia during the civil war. From rifles to T-72 tanks and MiG fighters, they were widely used in the armed ranks of all ethnic groups in the Balkans.
In this way, the former "red Prussia" with institutional utensils was cleanly erased from all traces on the surface, and disappeared into the dust of history. However, after so many years, the question of the "1+1" of the two Germans has finally been proved to be 1+1<2, and the "East-West Equality" concept of the "Great Leap Forward" in West Germany at that time has helplessly changed from 5 years and 10 years to 30 years, or even 50 years, which is far more complicated than "incorporation" or "integration".