@@donreed The parade was held on October 7, 1989. One month later, on November 9, the Berlin Wall fell and the SED stepped down by the end of that year. Almost a year later (4 days short), on October 3, 1990, East and West Germany reunited as a single country.
Former East Germany didn't do such a good job regarding preserving the history of its arms development. Not a lot of sources for people to do research on them. Because of the economy after the reunion, most of their weapons were sold to other countries.
These parades by the East German military just didn't take place on one day, there was a week of rehearsals beforehand and the Allies on the otherside of the Wall would be able to attend these rehearsals (informally) via Checkpoint Charlie. I attended the rehearsals in 1987 as a young Trooper in the British Army. The day I was there we witnessed two tanks and one personnel carrier broke down. All the military hardware on display was gleaming, absolutely squeaky clean with either a fresh coat of paint or spent the best part of a day being polished. The East German soldiers (Eastie Beasties) would be a mix of being nice to us, or would tell us to F off in German. I struck up a conversation with one lad, probably the same age as me, he asked me in German where I was from, and he then asked if I followed Manchester United! I told him I didn't but that he could come and watch a match with me. He laughed (cos he was trapped behind the Iron Curtain). Bizarre now when I think about it. Thousands of East German soldiers, posed and trained to fight their way through into the West alongside Warsaw Pact troops and here I was have a laugh with one such soldier. Told me what I knew at that age, that it was all a game played by politicians on all sides, the ordinary folk would be the ones to suffer in the event of a war. Same applies today.
I remember one time at one of the parade rehearsals, my old man chatted up a couple of you guys. I think they might have been liaison people, not sure though. In uniform and had binos. I remember distinctly how weirded out I was that the enemy was allowed to spy on all the military hardware and how they were normal people that you could talk to (not evil aggressors). They were very polite, but distant. Like professional, not too keen on fraternizing. I kind of miss the parades, a couple dozen MBTs crawling through a dense urban area is an awesome experience.
@@dmitriyrukoleev5564 Hallo mein Freund, für mich und auch viele ehemalige DDR Bürger sind das russiche Volk immer noch Brüder und Schwestern. Die Politiker wollen uns diese Freundschaft kaputt machen und sagen Russland ist unser Feind. Ich hoffe daß es eines Tages so wird wie es früher war. Viele Grüße aus Wilkau-Haßlau in Sachsen
@@dmitriyrukoleev5564 Привет, мой друг, я тоже вижу тебя своим братом. Для многих бывших граждан ГДР русский народ - братья и сестры. Большой привет из Вилькау-Хасслау из Саксонии.
I was there, but upstream of the review stand with the dignitaries. Wasn't able to enter the area opposite the dignitaries because we didn't have a pass (ausweiss). After the parade, I was near the band. A General (he had General's Arabesque collar patches), probably in charge of the band, was so happy, and he was walking amonst the bandsmen backslapping them and shaking their hands. It was my first and only visit to East Germany.
Guten Abend,hatte November 1989 mit 19 Jahre , mein Einberufungsbehl NVA ( dann kam Fall der Mauer,keine NVA mehr ) kam dann in die Bundeswehr . War Zeitsoldat Marine Maat . Danke für das Video.
I was at this parade in 89 I was stationed in West Berlin . US Army Berlin Brigade Aco 6/502nd McKnair barracks. I was very impressed especially seeing the goose-stepping for the first time live .
@@Thargor3000 I never said that I was in the parade I was at the parade watching the parade big difference go back and re-read it don't get it twisted.
Economically they were dependent on West Germany and only had full employment as a result, there were people in the NVA who thought we had overrun you, unfortunately not economically, they cultivated Prussianism, which was not wanted in the West by West.
In fact the east german Military Uniforms were a mixture of the Soviet and the German Uniform tradition. In some cases they totally soviet in other terms you might think of them as real Prussians.
@@DavidSternburgYt Not "engineered" so much as simply trying to simplify manufacture, therefore cut costs and quicken production as the war progressed not necessarily in favor of Germany.
I was in East Berlin in June, 1989, and it was quite an experience. I am looking at my piece of the wall that my cousin sent me here on my desk. Memories!
@@parhamkhalaj-eu2pj Nonsense. East Germany was occupied and re-educated by Russians for 40 years. Many East Germans are still unable to live in freedom and democracy, just like Russians.
Actually, the Soviet marching traditions are classic Russian drill from the empire period. Man y Eurpoean/Russian parade dirll is from the Prussian School of Ferderick the Great (1740's) What we call the goose step isn't uniquely German, but was practised in special parade performances for visiting dignitaries and monarchs well before this present era. Even the Chinese and N. Koreans have thier version of Prussin Drill, and probably do it best. Their training is brutal - literally. The US is the only major power that does not goose step, although the Marines do have a kind of high step they use when on the parade deck. Mostly, it's a very precise heel-toe stiff backed cadence step. No bobbing heads, no slumped shoulders, no swinging arms, no bored facial expressions, sleeves rolled tight, lots of well developed biceps. The US Marines are by far the best at marching discipline from company to company across the entire Corps. They ALL look as good as these German troops, without being special parade detachments.
Германии ,- НЕТ с 1945 г. Есть ещё територия ,на которой ,(пока), примущественно говорят на Германском языке . Германский Народ - НИ на что не имеет право ,- даже на собственных детей ,- ибо ОН ,- нацист , антисемит ,фашист и прочее ! Теперь , чтобы окончательно уничтожить самый трудолюбивый, самый оккуратный, самый талантливый Народ ,- открыли границы и сюда прут , миллионами и миллионами африканцы , арабы и азиаты . Всем советую прочесть : Жерар Менухин "Правду сказать - чёрта изгнать ". Обязательно згрузите на стик , ибо, уже трижды было стёрто из интернета .
I'm from Vietnam. '70, '80 of 20 century, there were many Vietnamese went to DDR ("Đông Đức" In Vietnamese) for studying or working That time, Vietnamese loved DDR's products such as Mifa bycicle, Simson motorcycle... I remenbered that: Not many slots for going to DDR, people tried to get a slot to DDR because when return from DDR, they earned more money than the other counties. But after "Berlin wall - 1989", many Vietnamese stayed at DDR and became Deutsche.
Then the BND infiltrated small Neo Nazi groups which started to do assaults on refugee camps in the East blaming "racist" Eastern Germans for being reactionary
To this day, the descendants of the Vietnamese Guest Workers/Contract Workers (GDR nomenclature) are among the most liked (if not THE most liked) non-germans in the east. Unlike Turks, Arabs and the like your people have shown time and time again productivity, adherence to the law and willingness to integrate. Literally the only foreign populace where the now 30ish year old speak accent free german and more often than not are named "Daniel" and "Maximilian" (the only "Friedrich" under 40 I have ever met was a son of a Vietnamese family btw). I personally have not met ONE descendant of a Vietnamese family that was unemployed. Case in point: my somewhat racist father-in-law has nothing but good to say about the Vietnamese. "Polite and hard working people they are", in his words.
The fact East Germany aka DDR folded the moment the Soviets pulled the plug on them proves it was nothing more than a propped-up Soviet puppet state. If it was a true nation its people truly believed in, it would have remained independent of West Germany aka Bundesrepublik von Deutschland.
Yep, even soldiers who participated in this event had no idea this would be the last GDR parade! One of these former soldiers, his name is Torsten, now owns a East German Militaria website called germandotmilitaria.com
@@MaximusandHistory amazing how I got to witness history in the making without even knowing it would happen had several friends that where in the East German army.
So weird to think about that it was all gone one year later. I was in East Berlin twice in 1989-90. It is strange to think about that I will never be able to take that trip again.
Great Video! As a collector of WW2 and GDR HD Footage I am very impressed of this Video. It is truly not easy to find such good Quality Videos and Sound of this Parades. Stay uploading and can I ask you where you got this great Footage?
In this very moment, I was sitting on my sofa in West Berlin watching the parade in east German TV. My apartment in Moabit was just a few kilometers away from the parade. It really gave me the shivers down the spine. All this Prussian military ceremony. All these missiles and tanks. And in the same moment, hearing them talking about world peace. It was quite an absurd situation and sometimes nowadays, I think it was just a nightmare. As if it wasn't real.
That's very fascinating to hear your anecdote! I am surprised West Germans watched these events live on TV! Did you always watch these parades every year? Or were you curious to see what was going on the other side of town? It definitely seems ironic that they were talking about world peace while parading tanks and missile systems on the streets of Karl Marx Allee. However it seems that was the ordinary thing back in the day. The Bundeswehr also had military parades with tanks and missile systems but they were not a frequent sight compared to the GDR.
@@MaximusandHistory No I didn't watch the parade regularly. It was actually a very special day. The 40th anniversary of the GDR. The change was already in the air, and everyone was curious what Gorbachev is going to say. Actually, I watched the East German TV sometimes. Coming from West Germany, I moved to Berlin to study in 1987. Before I had no contact to East Germany, and it was very fascinating for me. A German country but totally different. They reported about the same events, but with different conclusions and from a totally different political perspective. And actually, I found the parade quite frightening. So massive. Compare it to a parade of the Bundeswehr's 30th anniversary a few years before.
@@olafge It is quite surreal to see so many people who were actually in Berlin around this time watching my UA-cam videos. I've had countless American, British and former East German soldiers leave comments on my videos, sharing their experiences all here on UA-cam. I was born a decade after the 40th anniversary of the GDR, so for most my life I didn't even know it existed because the American education system is quite poor when it comes to world history. Germany post-WW2 was not even mentioned once during my entire tenure in secondary education! In fact, most people don't really have any clue about Cold War history in general (which in my opinion is disturbing) considering it wasn't that long ago and how relevant it is in today's geopolitics. Part of my family is from the USSR, so I get a taste of both worlds.
It had nothing to do with "Prussian military"...it was brazen communist military propaganda and projection of power. you don't see the unified German military doing that now...But you see constantly see China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, all trying to bully neighbors with flaunting military might in parades.
Ich war dabei! I was there, saw it live....all of the Commie Bonzen were there also... The DDR Volksarmee Orchestra was the very best I've ever seen...outstanding musicians playing all the beautiful old Marschlieder.
The goose step march originated in Prussia. It was introduced into the Russian army by Prussian military advisers hired to modernize the Czars army. The Red army inherited it from it's predecessor. Under Hitler the march was abandoned by the Wehrmacht just before WW2. The West German Bundeswehr has never used it. The East German army following their Soviet masters reintroduced it.
And just to be clear the Soviet Army reserved the goose step only for drill training, state ceremonies, and the changing of the guard. Regular troops didn't goose step but instead used the "marching step" or "походный шаг."
As an American I enjoyed the brief glimpse of Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party U.S.A. He's the stocky Minnesotan in the tan suit at 10:22. By this time Gorbachev had cut off subsidies to his party because Hall was critical of the Soviet leader's reforms. But apparently he was still in Honecker's good graces.
@@MaximusandHistory as someone who has done drill, that turn is as sweet as a nut. It made my eyes fall out in amazement. The practice to do that must have been absolutely monotonous. Every day square bashing. To get it right. But I can't see the turn coming. No shouted instructions or change in music. Just a sweet change of direction. I am truly in awe.
@@stevenmajor9513 The drum corps performs 3 drum beats to signal to all the musicians to start goose stepping. After that, its all timing and then they execute the turn! Its truly an impressive drill maneuver, only found in Prussian military tradition
@@redlevantinist8947 Believe it or not the Bundeswehr has done the Scwhenk before but it is very rarely ever used and it looks rather lame because they don't goose step.
These events took place on 6-7 October, 1989. Ten days after this parade, arguably the last Prussian military parade in history, Erich Honecker was ousted from the SED central committee. The DDR state was to survive only another two months.
Yeah in addition, Gunter Schabowski, East German Government Spokesman was well known of accidentally speech in a press conference that the Berlin Wall opened for good without condition thus led the collapse of the Berlin Wall
@@krle7970 Nice Chile is very Prussian because in 1890, Emil Kroner introduced the Prussian Doctrine including goose step marching, uniforms and musical march which is remained today and the most highlights was September’s Military Parade held in Santiago 😊😊
The drummers rotating their mallets as they strike the drum is a late DDR invention (1980's), before that, they hit the drums in Prussian style. It seems in the last decade of the NVA, a few Prussian traditions were dropped (Closed Collar Tunics, Exerzierschritt in 1990, and drummers hitting the snare drums). For most of the NVA's existence, the Musikkorps maintained the most Prussian doctrine and drill whilst the regular troops used mix of Prussian and Soviet traditions. I personally love the DDR's style of rotating the mallets, it looks so awesome and unique, but untraditional.
@@MaximusandHistory I just love that drumming style ;) What‘s ironic is that right in the 80s, the Bundeswehr went away from its Americanisations (Adapting WW2 Luftwaffe uniform, replacing the American M1 with German M92 and berets, Guard battalion officially being the successor to the first Prussian foot guard battalion, etc.) and became more German while the NVA became less German. Man, these times were truly a headache.
@@scanida5070 I should also correct myself, I didn't realize this until later on, but the NVA Musikkorps still used the traditional snare drums and hit them in the Prussian style. If you look closely, they are hiding behind the front row of tenor drums (which rotate their mallets). For some reason I though they removed the snares and replaced them with the tenors entirely, but they actually just added the extra row of tenors, making it 3 rows of drummers.
@@MaximusandHistory I’ll be honest with you: They should’ve removed one line of the snares because the fifes are just way too quiet. The Parademarsch der Spielleute only works if you can truly hear the fifes.
@@MaximusandHistory Adding of the tenor drums adds to the frequencies of all percussions together, making them even louder. The rotating of the mallets is actually an NVA-variant of old cavalry drummers' style of rotating mallets. Definitely an interesting and impressive feature of NVA's drum corps.
Now after looking at this video a couple of times, I noticed a few things: 1. The NVA’s “Präsentiermarsch der NVA“ sounds nearly identical to the Bundeswehr’s “Präsentiermarsch der deutschen Marine”. 2. Why are the Navy’s Captain uniforms in weird black-dark-blueish tone? And is it only me or are the caps “bigger”, you know, that “Russian cap” style ;) 3. Maybe I am blind but did the NVA’s airforce ever have their own uniforms? 4. The 4 bands have two drum majors upon closer inspection.
First thing to consider is that despite the NVA's small repertoire of Prussian marches, unlike the Bundeswehr (which has performed way more traditional marches than the NVA) the school of thought of composing German marches ironically survived in the DDR. They produced more marches than the Bundeswehr, and their structure was completely modeled after older Prussian marches. The tradition of composing a Präsentiermarsch survived in the DDR and I have to say, they really nailed the Prussian style well. While the other marches sometimes borrow "Socialist" motifs or quotes in their compositions, but not all. I'm not too sure about the marine uniforms, those are the only uniforms that I haven't studied in detail, but from my knowledge, the peaked caps the NVA wears are virtually identical to Wehrmacht caps in shape and design. Soviet caps have a much bigger crown. I own a real one and it definitely is much bigger than NVA caps for sure. The Air Force definitely had their "own" uniform for a while, they were the first and only uniforms in the NVA to have open collar uniforms with a tie underneath with the traditional Reichswehr 4 button tunic. And although the Navy also had open collar, their uniforms were completely different in style from the Army and Airforce. By 1975, the Border Guards, Army, Paratroopers, etc. all switched to open collar tunics like in the Bundeswehr and the Air Force looked almost no different from the Landstreitkräfte. The only distinguishing feature about their uniform is the sky blue piping on their uniform and hats, and collar tabs.
The design of East German air force uniform refers to the Soviet Union. The color of Soviet air force uniform is the same as that of the army, but there are differences in edge color, shoulder badge and collar badge.
@Scanida There are two drum majors, and four conductors. The drum major marching in front of the whole band is the actual drum major of the drum corps. The other drum major standing foremost in front of the whole band is the chief conductor or Generalmusikdirektor of the army. His purpose is to coordinate the playing as a whole, and all the other conductors follow him. Each of the four bands also has their own conductor with a long baton in front of their respective bands.
Feels like the final flourish of Prussian militarism, hard to believe a few months after this it all came to an end. Maybe they sensed this would be the last parade.
A few months later ,as a British paratrooper, I was jumping with the former GDR Fallshirmjager, Now part of the Bundeswehr, We gave them are tour of London, including the Houses of Parliament, Amazing how history can change so quick.
Despise honecker I read: not as much as putin hates occident and want to exterminate us..... All those videos and trolls are manipulations channels. To mix history and confuse people. And transform the world into al kaeda
I agree with you I think nato would have had a mauling of the first degree most of the officers where ex wehermecht prisoners from stalingrad who brought their ideas with them
Eine Armee, die ohne Gnade auf ihr eigenes Volk schiesst, ist geschissen . Und Typen wie Du, die diese Armee ehren, auf solche wie Du ist auch geschissen.
“re-educated” lmao sure bud they transitioned nicely into a capitalist conservative society, modern day east Germany is Right Wing mostly. the soviet union collapsed. It gave up. You’re ideology is false if it lost to a blubber monster like USA lol. Modern day Russia is way better than the ussr.
Wer hätte jemals daran gedacht, dass kurze Zeit später nach dieser grandios in die Szene gesetzte Militärparade alles verpufft und in sich die Luft auflösen würde?
Memories of a better world when family, relationships, social solidarity, and welfare of society mattered. Gone are the days when people were not completely narcissistic and selfish, when greed wasn't viewed as a virtue, when work wasn't just a rat race where you trample over other people to elevate yourself to the top, before we all became engrossed in mindless consumerism. I can only hope this nightmare we have been living in since the 1980s will end before I die, and I can at least spend a few of my final years living in a REAL society again.
At that stage the focus was on workers, family, country, and bread. Now it is only oligarchs, billionaires, and American rappers and pop stars, while everything is just getting more expensive...
Никогда не вернётся та жизнь, капитализм надевал маску с человеческим лицом, только потому что был СССР. Сейчас ему нечего бояться и он показывает свой звериный оскал.
Leichter Stechschritt, Ordnung und Disziplin bis ins kleinste. Kein Vergleich zur heutigen BW. Man sieht den Soldaten den Stolz auch an, den man heutige oft in der BW vergebens sucht.
...20 Jahre davor....also 1969 war ich einer von denen mit Helm. Wir waren stolz auf unser Land. Heute??? muss man bunt sein und seine Land verachten. Grandiose Entwicklung....
Чехам и словакам в 68 славно они пизды дали. Те боялись немцам подлянки делать, разговор был короткий-400 трупов провокаторов и ни одного убитого или раненного солдата ННА. В отличии от 120 погибших солдата СА. Вечно мы в милосердных играем.
I was in high school from 1988-1991 in the US and I find it surreal watching this and remembering how quickly things would change in Europe over the next two years. Few of the people in this video had any idea what was coming and if they did, they had no way to know how fast it was coming.
Yes, I do! But it's about 21 minutes long, compared to the original 35 minutes unfortunately. But you will still enjoy it as takes the best highlights of the Zapfenstreich! :)
Wow, this comment section really is a great example of how extremely black and white many people think. It's like people think the DDR was either a communist utopia or a dystopian hellscape. In reality is was neither. It was probably the best Warschau pact country to live in, had a fairly high living standard, it was still authoritarian, but not nearly as bad as many of the other communist countries. Live in western europe was still a lot better though. I noticed this lack of nuance when talking about the Trabant as well. People will praise the 2CV (and fiat 500, or twostroke saabs or DKW's) constantly, but have nothing good to say about the Trabant. I drive both a 2CV and Trabant as my only cars, and I would argue that if you compare both in the early 60's, the Trabant is the superior car in everything but passenger comfort. By the 80's the it was hopelessly outdated though. It is still a reliable car though, in the DDR the average lifespan was 28 years, and mine is nearly 40 now.
Мозг включите, какое све оружие если входишь в основной состав военного блока вооруженного определенным типом оружия. Снабжение при тотальной войне возможно с организовать только при полном единообразии. @@Cyan_Nightingale
Concerning the quality of life: the DDR/GDR had the highest carbon emission rates in all of Europe due to their reliance on brown coal for heating and producing energy. When you were in the DDR you were able to literally smell it. According to the UN guidelines the DDR would have been categorized as „not inhabitable“.
@@MaximusandHistory I was one of those who marched along. In the 1st marching block of the "Ernst Thälmann" Officers' College of the Land Forces. 5th row, second from the right. My father marched in the first parade and I marched in the last. In 1989, I was a student officer in my 2nd year of study in Löbau.
@@lamadongdong It will always amaze me how former participants of this parade continue to leave comments on my channel. Do you get nostalgic when you think back to this parade?
@@MaximusandHistory Perhaps not nostalgia. But the three years surrounding this parade were extremely eventful for me. I became a soldier, met my future wife, the 6 months of parade training, the events in the GDR, the demos. Then the increased military readiness after October 7th, the relief mission in the opencast coal mine. The turnaround in the GDR, the transfer to the West German Bundeswehr in 1990 and discharge 3 months later. Dropping out of university and starting again at a civilian university. All of this and many other stories from this time have left their mark on me. And in the middle of it all, the parade. The last parade in the GDR, although my father was at the first parade. So it was an extreme time, with lots of memories.
@@lamadongdong You were took part in the most important chapter of Cold War History! So it is my honor to be able to talk with with you! Would you be interested in joining my Discord server? It's a gaming / social media app where you can chat and text (You don't have to speak, but just text the same way you are doing now on UA-cam) and It's super easy to join! And it's not like traditional social media where you use your real face and name, instead everyone uses completely anonymous names. I had the honor of inviting another NVA soldier who also took part in the 1989 Parade and he shared his memories with our members. (All of us are born well after 1989) so we have a huge interest in history and we tend to appreciate it more.
Menurut saya, NVA adalah real tentara jerman terakhir. Lihatlah bagaimana uniform NVA yang bagus dan parade yang luar biasa. Saya rasa, militerisme prussia tidak perlu dihilangkan dari jerman. Dan NVA ini adalah DNA wehrmacht yang sebenarnya. Namun, Tentara jerman sekarang (bundeswehr) seperti badut.
@@barklex laber keinen mist in den Rücken konnteste schlecht schießen außer du wolltest jemanden auf BRD Gebiet erschießen und nen Skandal verursachen ......außerdem galt der Schusswaffengebrauch nur als letztes Mittel genau wie es zahllose andere Nationen z.B. die USA es heute auch noch machen...... wenn man nach Warnrufen und Warnschüssen noch weiterläuft muss halt damit rechnen auch mal etwas Blei in den Kadaver gepumpt zu bekommen ...... in den meisten Fällen war lediglich grenzenlose Dummheit und Selbstüberschätzung der Grund warum Personen generell in jene Lage gerieten....
@@peterwolfgangwegener3666 sie sind abgehauen weil sie entweder verfolgt und oder von der Staatsmacht diskriminiert wurden ...... viele aber auch um schlichtweg etwas mehr Freiheit genießen zu können als es die SED Klappspaten ihnen erlaubt hätten, andere wiederum gingen weil sie dank Westfernsehen dachten das im Westen großer Wohlstand auf sie wartet und es dort jedem Menschen über alle Maße gut geht ..... HA weit gefehlt....
As a collector of DDR NVA militaria, I find this video quite useful as reference. My copy of the original broadcast, on VHS format, is not quite as sharp. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! This is the original Television broadcast quality in 50 fps, its the best version on the entire internet! :) I also collect some DDR militaria, especially if they are related to the Musikkorps!
Удивительно, нет просто очень удивительно! Спустя 50 лет они носят такую парадную форму похожую на старую по покрою. А брюки галифе это просто картинка! Ведь они вышли из моды много десятилетий раньше! 🤗🏹🇫🇮
As Shakespeare said, sound and fury signifying nothing. This was May 1989. By the end of the year, DDR was all but dead. It collapsed like a wet paper bag. East Germany, it turned out, had no real substance - it was incapable of independent survival. After it collapsed, Germany invested 2 trillion DM into the former East Germany. Unfortunately, it was politically necessary to allow East Germans to exchange 1 Ostmark for 1 DM - but doing so instantly destroyed most East German industry, because at currency parity, the products of East German industry almost all became instantly uncompetitive. East Germany had the strongest economy of the Warsaw Pact, and still, what they produced was grossly uncompetitive with the products of the west, at least at a rate of 1 Ostmark = 1DM. So, with the exception of the area around Berlin, which is thriving, a lot the rest of the former East Germany looks terrific because of all the govt investment - but is notably depopulated, because a lot of former East Germans live in the western Laender.
@@cv990a4 The Bundesrepublik is dead too... no soul, no connection to German blood, just an economic zone like its overlord the US. Modern Germany is still an occupied lapdog of Zionist globalism. Now the Germans are being replaced by non-white hordes thrust apon them without a whimper from the German population.
Да да вы правы, еще бордюры хорошо красят и засохшую траву зеленый цвет а все остальное время на плацу подошва стирается за месяц металические набойки приходилось набивать, а как с оружием справляться так пару раз давали по стрелять и все ...остальное время маршировать........парадная армия получается
Generaloberst Stechbart saß damals während einer Übung neben mir in einem UAZ 469, als sein Lada-Niva im Gelände versagte. Ich als junger Unteroffizier war natürlich sehr aufgeregt. Aber es war eine unwiederbringliche Begegnung.
if you can, would you be able to upload footage of either 30 Jahre DDR or 25 Jahre DDR or even both. Ive been trying to find full versions for a while and I would appreciate it if you were to get a video of it.
My 5y old self was in the audience, my uncle paraded and grandpa watched from the stands. childhood memories! Good I didnt question anything back then but thought tanks were only cool
Bin ebenfalls stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben. Solche brutalen Angriffe auf Deutsche Bürger von Migranten und Flüchtlingen hätte es da nicht gegeben.
Ich habe von 1987 bis 1991 in der DDR-Stadt Magdeburg gedient, T-80-Tanker! Die NVA war eine starke Armee, sie waren die qualifiziertesten Verbündeten, die an gemeinsamen Übungen teilnahmen!
Und was hat eine Armee damit zu tun? Die Sicherheit im Innern ist ja die Sache der Polizei und nicht der Armee. Oder geht die Bundeswehr auf Streife und jagt Kriminelle Ausländer?
Nein , dafür habt ihr den Bürgern , die vom Arbeiter und Bauern Paradies die schnauze voll hatten ,am Antifaschistischen Schutzwall in den Rücken geschossen .
Aber wenn sie diejenigen ermordeten, die anders dachten als der Kommunismus, Mörder der Deutschen, dann lebe die Freiheit in der wahren Demokratie und die Kommunisten kehrten nie zurück
Двоюродный брат служил в ГДР, когда он приехал и привез видео магнитофон и на нем была спортивка адидас он был самым крутым для всех нас, многие из бывшего СССР кто проходили службу в этой стране остались только теплые воспоминания!
@@mickymouse7942 Nee, erstens war das keine Absicht und zweitens war ich da gerade Offiziersschüler und auch aus einer Offiziersfamilie. Ich hab Stechbart als Kind persönlich gekannt und empfand ihn eigentlich als sehr angenehm.
@@nikname7665actually, it's the other way around : the Russians (Soviets) took over Prussian marching. It's still present in Russian and some post Soviet militaries.
Ich war am 1.Mai 1976 oder 1977 als Teilnehmer dabei. Der Republikpalast wurde damals eröffnet. Ja, obwohl ich heute sehr gut Bayern lebe hat diese Offiersschülerausbildung vieles an Brauchbares für ein geordnettes und zielstrebiges Leben gebracht. Heute wird ja nur noch geschlampert. Ohne Ordnung und ein Mindestmass an Disziplin bricht alles zusammen.
Such a strong nation having such a glorious celebration. I'm sure they all had a strong future together. Looking forward to the 80th anniversary of the DDR in a few years.
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@@MaximusandHistory thank you for buying this dont listen to that guy. i cant afford to support you but thank you anyways. its interesting to watch
@@MaximusandHistory Is there a video of the whole process of the parade for the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin?
@@onjon7043 There is, but some channel already uploaded it!
What was the exact date of this event, and the exact date, if one exists, of the collapse of East Germany?
@@donreed The parade was held on October 7, 1989. One month later, on November 9, the Berlin Wall fell and the SED stepped down by the end of that year.
Almost a year later (4 days short), on October 3, 1990, East and West Germany reunited as a single country.
I genuinely hope the best for your channel. It's important to preserve history
Former East Germany didn't do such a good job regarding preserving the history of its arms development. Not a lot of sources for people to do research on them. Because of the economy after the reunion, most of their weapons were sold to other countries.
To manipulate history you mean
Wer sind heute die Kriegsverbrecher in Deutschland???
@@nicolenicole2389 u must be one of the woke toxic westerners. YUCK
@@nicolenicole2389 What? How?
These parades by the East German military just didn't take place on one day, there was a week of rehearsals beforehand and the Allies on the otherside of the Wall would be able to attend these rehearsals (informally) via Checkpoint Charlie. I attended the rehearsals in 1987 as a young Trooper in the British Army. The day I was there we witnessed two tanks and one personnel carrier broke down. All the military hardware on display was gleaming, absolutely squeaky clean with either a fresh coat of paint or spent the best part of a day being polished. The East German soldiers (Eastie Beasties) would be a mix of being nice to us, or would tell us to F off in German. I struck up a conversation with one lad, probably the same age as me, he asked me in German where I was from, and he then asked if I followed Manchester United! I told him I didn't but that he could come and watch a match with me. He laughed (cos he was trapped behind the Iron Curtain). Bizarre now when I think about it. Thousands of East German soldiers, posed and trained to fight their way through into the West alongside Warsaw Pact troops and here I was have a laugh with one such soldier. Told me what I knew at that age, that it was all a game played by politicians on all sides, the ordinary folk would be the ones to suffer in the event of a war. Same applies today.
I remember one time at one of the parade rehearsals, my old man chatted up a couple of you guys. I think they might have been liaison people, not sure though. In uniform and had binos. I remember distinctly how weirded out I was that the enemy was allowed to spy on all the military hardware and how they were normal people that you could talk to (not evil aggressors). They were very polite, but distant. Like professional, not too keen on fraternizing.
I kind of miss the parades, a couple dozen MBTs crawling through a dense urban area is an awesome experience.
Well, we should praise the politicians that they finally restrained from the war. Unlike current times...
Thank you for sharing this. It really gives younger generations a dose of reality.
Some of the ordinary folk are defending his country today
Da war die DDR mit den Warschauer Pakt noch eine Macht. Was ist jetzt aus den DDR Bürgern geworden,???
Erst Sommer 89 zum Raketenschießen, danach zur Parade 40. Jahrestag. Zwei Monate später wurde ich entlassen. Das war meine NVA Zeit.
You took part in this parade?
@@MaximusandHistoryBased of what he said and the context, yes.
Sei froh 😂
Ich bin in der DDR aufgewachsen und war von 1987 bis 1989 bei der NVA und ich muss sagen, es waren trotzdem schöne 1 1/2 Jahre.
Die ddr wollte die preusische Geschichte deutslabd ab danken aber deutsen sind und bleiben deutschen
Дружище мы с тобой сверстники, я в это же время служил в советской армии. я русский, ты немец, но я тебя считаю братом.
@@dmitriyrukoleev5564 Hallo mein Freund, für mich und auch viele ehemalige DDR Bürger sind das russiche Volk immer noch Brüder und Schwestern. Die Politiker wollen uns diese Freundschaft kaputt machen und sagen Russland ist unser Feind. Ich hoffe daß es eines Tages so wird wie es früher war.
Viele Grüße aus Wilkau-Haßlau in Sachsen
@@dmitriyrukoleev5564 Привет, мой друг, я тоже вижу тебя своим братом.
Для многих бывших граждан ГДР русский народ - братья и сестры.
Большой привет из Вилькау-Хасслау из Саксонии.
SOVITNNIONGIVT IHRE DEMOGRATE
I was there, but upstream of the review stand with the dignitaries. Wasn't able to enter the area opposite the dignitaries because we didn't have a pass (ausweiss). After the parade, I was near the band. A General (he had General's Arabesque collar patches), probably in charge of the band, was so happy, and he was walking amonst the bandsmen backslapping them and shaking their hands. It was my first and only visit to East Germany.
Wow, thank you for sharing your personal memory of this event! It's so surreal that I am getting comments from people who were at such events!
"It was my first and only visit to East Germany." That's my suggestion: Go there now. 😊
@@sonckebecker8725 Late but he was refering to the country... it fell apart 4 weeks after this parade.
The two drivers maintaining formation in Soviet Chaikas showed great skill. The twin 180 degree turns came off flawlessly.
I was hoping they'd race each other.
Even though they were commies, they’re still Germans…😊
@@glennmartin6492they had to. Otherwise stasi takes care and ends his careers . A Final service to the state
@@pezazul2917 where do you guys come up with this crap?
@@agadez4015 rela man, its a joke. Anyway Who knows?
Thank you so much for the upload! Words cannot describe how much i enjoy this clip. Truly amazing!
And there's still more to come!
*This is just, PERFECTION!*
Truly i'm stunned 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
@@MaximusandHistory what brand and model is the limousine the general is Riding?
@@resireg GAZ 13-B "Chaika"
Guten Abend,hatte November 1989 mit 19 Jahre , mein Einberufungsbehl NVA ( dann kam Fall der Mauer,keine NVA mehr ) kam dann in die Bundeswehr . War Zeitsoldat Marine Maat . Danke für das Video.
I was at this parade in 89 I was stationed in West Berlin . US Army Berlin Brigade Aco 6/502nd McKnair barracks. I was very impressed especially seeing the goose-stepping for the first time live .
in west berlin stationed and you was on this parade??? i dont think so
@@Thargor3000 I never said that I was in the parade I was at the parade watching the parade big difference go back and re-read it don't get it twisted.
You went to a communists parade being an American soldier?
No mames Pinocchio !
@@ernestpaniagua1210 no you was never in east berlin at this time
@@Thargor3000 oh I was you probably weren't even born jr kick rocks
The last German military parde.
Economically they were dependent on West Germany and only had full employment as a result, there were people in the NVA who thought we had overrun you, unfortunately not economically, they cultivated Prussianism, which was not wanted in the West by West.
The last one was in 1945
@@rlm2933 wdym
@@rlm2933
The last East German parade.
Nah
i can't believe it's already 34 years ago... time flies !
longer than that goddam wall existed
Now brainless idiots in the west want it back.
@Ozi Bits like economic prosperity and individual freedom. Such bad things. You should live in your paradise in North Korea
@Ozi Bits Oh, fuck off, Nazi!
The Wall has already been down longer than it was up.
Das Interessanteste sind wie so häufig die Kommentare!
In fact the east german Military Uniforms were a mixture of the Soviet and the German Uniform tradition. In some cases they totally soviet in other terms you might think of them as real Prussians.
Prussian Officer Corps still lives!
The ugly soviet style helmets are terrible
@@costatitan8458 they are ww2 era helmets designed by nazi engineers, not soviet
@@raymondlescott6092 I hope so.
@@DavidSternburgYt Not "engineered" so much as simply trying to simplify manufacture, therefore cut costs and quicken production as the war progressed not necessarily in favor of Germany.
I was in East Berlin in June, 1989, and it was quite an experience. I am looking at my piece of the wall that my cousin sent me here on my desk. Memories!
I hope that piece of wall is enclosed in glass. Its Full of asbestos
زنده با شوروی سابق
آلمان شرقی آلمان اصیل بود
@@jungleify mine is. I kind of suspect it to be fake though
@@parhamkhalaj-eu2pj Nonsense. East Germany was occupied and re-educated by Russians for 40 years. Many East Germans are still unable to live in freedom and democracy, just like Russians.
A mix of Prussian marching traditions, thrown in with a mix of some Soviet Marching traditions.
Correct.
Actually, the Soviet marching traditions are classic Russian drill from the empire period. Man y Eurpoean/Russian parade dirll is from the Prussian School of Ferderick the Great (1740's) What we call the goose step isn't uniquely German, but was practised in special parade performances for visiting dignitaries and monarchs well before this present era. Even the Chinese and N. Koreans have thier version of Prussin Drill, and probably do it best. Their training is brutal - literally.
The US is the only major power that does not goose step, although the Marines do have a kind of high step they use when on the parade deck. Mostly, it's a very precise heel-toe stiff backed cadence step. No bobbing heads, no slumped shoulders, no swinging arms, no bored facial expressions, sleeves rolled tight, lots of well developed biceps. The US Marines are by far the best at marching discipline from company to company across the entire Corps. They ALL look as good as these German troops, without being special parade detachments.
Тешко срање
Auf deinen Mist was du zum besten gibst haben wir gewartet
@@OutnBacker 😢das wusste ich bis jetzt nicht,wie hieß gleich der russische Kaiser,
Да,останется в памяти Германская Демократическая Республика!
Выше всяких похвал отточенное мастерство маршировки и выступления оркестра.
идите ка нах. до сих пор от этого совкового у.г. отмыть германию не можем.
желаю лично тебе обнулиться в мучениях.
Традиции вермахта просто так не убьешь!🎉
@ВладПоляков-ч6ь это ещё до Вермахта существовало...
@@donrst4595 Но при вермахте достигло пика!
Германии ,- НЕТ с 1945 г. Есть ещё територия ,на
которой ,(пока), примущественно говорят на
Германском языке . Германский Народ - НИ на что
не имеет право ,- даже на собственных детей ,- ибо
ОН ,- нацист , антисемит ,фашист и прочее !
Теперь , чтобы окончательно уничтожить самый
трудолюбивый, самый оккуратный, самый талантливый
Народ ,- открыли границы и сюда прут , миллионами и
миллионами африканцы , арабы и азиаты .
Всем советую прочесть : Жерар Менухин "Правду сказать -
чёрта изгнать ". Обязательно згрузите на стик , ибо, уже
трижды было стёрто из интернета .
I'm from Vietnam. '70, '80 of 20 century, there were many Vietnamese went to DDR ("Đông Đức" In Vietnamese) for studying or working That time, Vietnamese loved DDR's products such as Mifa bycicle, Simson motorcycle... I remenbered that: Not many slots for going to DDR, people tried to get a slot to DDR because when return from DDR, they earned more money than the other counties. But after "Berlin wall - 1989", many Vietnamese stayed at DDR and became Deutsche.
You should check my out my other video. Its about the Vietnamese visiting the DDR!
@@MaximusandHistory Thank you for your recommendation. I know Vietnamese life in Gemany because my uncle lives there now.
Then the BND infiltrated small Neo Nazi groups which started to do assaults on refugee camps in the East blaming "racist" Eastern Germans for being reactionary
Simson was in Hungsry too. Wartburg auto.
To this day, the descendants of the Vietnamese Guest Workers/Contract Workers (GDR nomenclature) are among the most liked (if not THE most liked) non-germans in the east. Unlike Turks, Arabs and the like your people have shown time and time again productivity, adherence to the law and willingness to integrate. Literally the only foreign populace where the now 30ish year old speak accent free german and more often than not are named "Daniel" and "Maximilian" (the only "Friedrich" under 40 I have ever met was a son of a Vietnamese family btw). I personally have not met ONE descendant of a Vietnamese family that was unemployed.
Case in point: my somewhat racist father-in-law has nothing but good to say about the Vietnamese. "Polite and hard working people they are", in his words.
What memories. I was in the DDR and Poland in 1988 and you could feel something in the air.
Yeah, total loss of faith in communism.
The fact East Germany aka DDR folded the moment the Soviets pulled the plug on them proves it was nothing more than a propped-up Soviet puppet state. If it was a true nation its people truly believed in, it would have remained independent of West Germany aka Bundesrepublik von Deutschland.
you could smell socialism it was stale
@@MerleUnchained There never was any faith. Poles never wanted it.
You mean the smell of radioactive from Chernobyl, right?
Being the last parade no one had the slightest idea what the future was in store for us in the not so far future. Amazing.
Yep, even soldiers who participated in this event had no idea this would be the last GDR parade!
One of these former soldiers, his name is Torsten, now owns a East German Militaria website called germandotmilitaria.com
@@MaximusandHistory amazing how I got to witness history in the making without even knowing it would happen had several friends that where in the East German army.
@@ernestpaniagua1210 Where you in Berlin at the time?
Ganz dunkel
@@MaximusandHistory yes got there in 28 Dec 88 left in early Dec of 92 US Army Berlin Brigade. I was with Aco 6/502nd INF REG at McKnair barracks.
So weird to think about that it was all gone one year later.
I was in East Berlin twice in 1989-90. It is strange to think about that I will never be able to take that trip again.
Great Video! As a collector of WW2 and GDR HD Footage I am very impressed of this Video. It is truly not easy to find such good Quality Videos and Sound of this Parades. Stay uploading and can I ask you where you got this great Footage?
ITs too bad that Germany today are not using this type of Prussian military band and these type of soldiers.
@@pauleypavillion6088 The German Army plays many of the same tunes as always, you are confused!
@@williamjackson5942limk?
@@williamjackson5942 Only when it is aproved by the occupiers....
It is a video recording of the live broadcast of the GDR state television at the time!
In this very moment, I was sitting on my sofa in West Berlin watching the parade in east German TV. My apartment in Moabit was just a few kilometers away from the parade. It really gave me the shivers down the spine. All this Prussian military ceremony. All these missiles and tanks. And in the same moment, hearing them talking about world peace. It was quite an absurd situation and sometimes nowadays, I think it was just a nightmare. As if it wasn't real.
That's very fascinating to hear your anecdote! I am surprised West Germans watched these events live on TV! Did you always watch these parades every year? Or were you curious to see what was going on the other side of town?
It definitely seems ironic that they were talking about world peace while parading tanks and missile systems on the streets of Karl Marx Allee. However it seems that was the ordinary thing back in the day. The Bundeswehr also had military parades with tanks and missile systems but they were not a frequent sight compared to the GDR.
@@MaximusandHistory No I didn't watch the parade regularly. It was actually a very special day. The 40th anniversary of the GDR. The change was already in the air, and everyone was curious what Gorbachev is going to say. Actually, I watched the East German TV sometimes. Coming from West Germany, I moved to Berlin to study in 1987. Before I had no contact to East Germany, and it was very fascinating for me. A German country but totally different. They reported about the same events, but with different conclusions and from a totally different political perspective. And actually, I found the parade quite frightening. So massive. Compare it to a parade of the Bundeswehr's 30th anniversary a few years before.
@@olafge It is quite surreal to see so many people who were actually in Berlin around this time watching my UA-cam videos. I've had countless American, British and former East German soldiers leave comments on my videos, sharing their experiences all here on UA-cam.
I was born a decade after the 40th anniversary of the GDR, so for most my life I didn't even know it existed because the American education system is quite poor when it comes to world history. Germany post-WW2 was not even mentioned once during my entire tenure in secondary education!
In fact, most people don't really have any clue about Cold War history in general (which in my opinion is disturbing) considering it wasn't that long ago and how relevant it is in today's geopolitics.
Part of my family is from the USSR, so I get a taste of both worlds.
It had nothing to do with "Prussian military"...it was brazen communist military propaganda and projection of power. you don't see the unified German military doing that now...But you see constantly see China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, all trying to bully neighbors with flaunting military might in parades.
What would the comrades do, if their was a lion loose? 😅
Only four weeks later was it over.
I cri everytime
Ja genau , von Politikern verraten!
@@H.P.W-j1m
Eher vom Volk abgeworfen...
Gorbatchev is responsible
@@faouzielmir9894Yeltsin is
Bin aus der ehemaligen DDR und bin heute stolz darauf früher dabei gewesen sein, im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester.
Da können Sie auch stolz sein, es war eine Armee des Friedens!
@@karlaheidel8648das war die Bundeswehr auch
"...im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester."
...bemerkenswert...
Das macht schon was her Deine Volksarmee. Wenn man das mit der heutigen Bundeswehr vergleicht müssten Ihnen doch die Tränen kommen?
Da habe ich auch blasen kennengelernt..
Fantastic. The way the band turns left is amazing.
👍👍👍
Муштра туды её в качель но иначе такое не достигается.
It was neat right. You can see the discipline
👍👍👍
Nazis and Prussians did the same...all been passed down to even the goose stepping..
Ich war dabei! I was there, saw it live....all of the Commie Bonzen were there also...
The DDR Volksarmee Orchestra was the very best I've ever seen...outstanding musicians playing all the beautiful old Marschlieder.
How close were you to the parade ground? That's amazing!
The goose step march originated in Prussia. It was introduced into the Russian army by Prussian military advisers hired to modernize the Czars army. The Red army inherited it from it's predecessor. Under Hitler the march was abandoned by the Wehrmacht just before WW2. The West German Bundeswehr has never used it. The East German army following their Soviet masters reintroduced it.
And just to be clear the Soviet Army reserved the goose step only for drill training, state ceremonies, and the changing of the guard. Regular troops didn't goose step but instead used the "marching step" or "походный шаг."
И это былой немецкой военной мощи. Немцы хотя нас убивали мы их уважали.
Сейчас опять хотят, но это последняя война для немцев будет. Мы приедем.
Bundeswehr didnt use it, because they only have light infantry und Stechschritt is only used by line Infantry
@@ВасилийСпиридонов-й5буже приехали, конечная😂😂😂
Прекрасная была страна! Счастлив, что знаю это не по наслышке. Жил в ГДР 7 лет
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Выгнали?😊
Горбатый всех сдал.
as an occupant? Good thing Germany has unified at least...don't you think?
As an American I enjoyed the brief glimpse of Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party U.S.A. He's the stocky Minnesotan in the tan suit at 10:22. By this time Gorbachev had cut off subsidies to his party because Hall was critical of the Soviet leader's reforms. But apparently he was still in Honecker's good graces.
It looks like Nicolae Ceaușescu at 10:10.
Little did anyone know what was to be his unenviable fate a few months later.
Thanks for pointing this out.
@dunbustin Also Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Yasir Arafat
A veritable gallery of communist honchos and their friends, 1989
American communists....now just democrats.😡
The turn at 12:38 is absolutely astounding.
I did do dril at one point of my life and that left turn would not be one i would like to do.
The 90 degree turn is called the "Schwenk", its a Prussian tradition!
@@MaximusandHistory as someone who has done drill, that turn is as sweet as a nut.
It made my eyes fall out in amazement. The practice to do that must have been absolutely monotonous. Every day square bashing. To get it right.
But I can't see the turn coming. No shouted instructions or change in music. Just a sweet change of direction. I am truly in awe.
@@stevenmajor9513 The drum corps performs 3 drum beats to signal to all the musicians to start goose stepping. After that, its all timing and then they execute the turn! Its truly an impressive drill maneuver, only found in Prussian military tradition
@@redlevantinist8947 Believe it or not the Bundeswehr has done the Scwhenk before but it is very rarely ever used and it looks rather lame because they don't goose step.
You should check Texas A & M University marching band.
Хорошая подборка видео истории! Желаю удачи в развитии канала!
🇷🇺🐷🇷🇺 Russenschweine 🇷🇺🐷🇷🇺
Удивительно смотреть этот парад спустя годы, зная что вскоре произошло С ГДР (DDR). Выучка военных на высоте. Желаю немецкому народу всего наилучшего.
Es reicht, wenn Du uns, den Verratenen, alles Gute wünscht. Den Knechten der Amerikaner braucht man nichts Gutes zu wünschen 👍🇷🇺
Cpaciba.
These events took place on 6-7 October, 1989. Ten days after this parade, arguably the last Prussian military parade in history, Erich Honecker was ousted from the SED central committee. The DDR state was to survive only another two months.
Yeah in addition, Gunter Schabowski, East German Government Spokesman was well known of accidentally speech in a press conference that the Berlin Wall opened for good without condition thus led the collapse of the Berlin Wall
Да горбатый, сука, всех сдал - и своих и союзников
Last “true” Prussian parade, as in Germans. The drill survives all over the world, most notably in chile
@@krle7970 Nice Chile is very Prussian because in 1890, Emil Kroner introduced the Prussian Doctrine including goose step marching, uniforms and musical march which is remained today and the most highlights was September’s Military Parade held in Santiago 😊😊
Watching the "goosestep" performed was fascinating to see, all the while thinking to myself,
"You won't be doing that for much longer."
Congrats on the new channel 👏 hope it'll grow bigger and better
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video!
Not truly in a German fashion but still quite impressive! Especially the hand movements of the drummers at 12:18
The drummers rotating their mallets as they strike the drum is a late DDR invention (1980's), before that, they hit the drums in Prussian style. It seems in the last decade of the NVA, a few Prussian traditions were dropped (Closed Collar Tunics, Exerzierschritt in 1990, and drummers hitting the snare drums). For most of the NVA's existence, the Musikkorps maintained the most Prussian doctrine and drill whilst the regular troops used mix of Prussian and Soviet traditions. I personally love the DDR's style of rotating the mallets, it looks so awesome and unique, but untraditional.
@@MaximusandHistory I just love that drumming style ;)
What‘s ironic is that right in the 80s, the Bundeswehr went away from its Americanisations (Adapting WW2 Luftwaffe uniform, replacing the American M1 with German M92 and berets, Guard battalion officially being the successor to the first Prussian foot guard battalion, etc.) and became more German while the NVA became less German. Man, these times were truly a headache.
@@scanida5070 I should also correct myself, I didn't realize this until later on, but the NVA Musikkorps still used the traditional snare drums and hit them in the Prussian style. If you look closely, they are hiding behind the front row of tenor drums (which rotate their mallets). For some reason I though they removed the snares and replaced them with the tenors entirely, but they actually just added the extra row of tenors, making it 3 rows of drummers.
@@MaximusandHistory I’ll be honest with you: They should’ve removed one line of the snares because the fifes are just way too quiet. The Parademarsch der Spielleute only works if you can truly hear the fifes.
@@MaximusandHistory Adding of the tenor drums adds to the frequencies of all percussions together, making them even louder. The rotating of the mallets is actually an NVA-variant of old cavalry drummers' style of rotating mallets. Definitely an interesting and impressive feature of NVA's drum corps.
Decided to come back to this video since it’s 7 October today, the GDR would’ve been 75 years old today!
Now after looking at this video a couple of times, I noticed a few things:
1. The NVA’s “Präsentiermarsch der NVA“ sounds nearly identical to the Bundeswehr’s “Präsentiermarsch der deutschen Marine”.
2. Why are the Navy’s Captain uniforms in weird black-dark-blueish tone? And is it only me or are the caps “bigger”, you know, that “Russian cap” style ;)
3. Maybe I am blind but did the NVA’s airforce ever have their own uniforms?
4. The 4 bands have two drum majors upon closer inspection.
First thing to consider is that despite the NVA's small repertoire of Prussian marches, unlike the Bundeswehr (which has performed way more traditional marches than the NVA) the school of thought of composing German marches ironically survived in the DDR. They produced more marches than the Bundeswehr, and their structure was completely modeled after older Prussian marches.
The tradition of composing a Präsentiermarsch survived in the DDR and I have to say, they really nailed the Prussian style well. While the other marches sometimes borrow "Socialist" motifs or quotes in their compositions, but not all.
I'm not too sure about the marine uniforms, those are the only uniforms that I haven't studied in detail, but from my knowledge, the peaked caps the NVA wears are virtually identical to Wehrmacht caps in shape and design. Soviet caps have a much bigger crown. I own a real one and it definitely is much bigger than NVA caps for sure.
The Air Force definitely had their "own" uniform for a while, they were the first and only uniforms in the NVA to have open collar uniforms with a tie underneath with the traditional Reichswehr 4 button tunic. And although the Navy also had open collar, their uniforms were completely different in style from the Army and Airforce. By 1975, the Border Guards, Army, Paratroopers, etc. all switched to open collar tunics like in the Bundeswehr and the Air Force looked almost no different from the Landstreitkräfte. The only distinguishing feature about their uniform is the sky blue piping on their uniform and hats, and collar tabs.
The design of East German air force uniform refers to the Soviet Union. The color of Soviet air force uniform is the same as that of the army, but there are differences in edge color, shoulder badge and collar badge.
@Scanida
There are two drum majors, and four conductors. The drum major marching in front of the whole band is the actual drum major of the drum corps. The other drum major standing foremost in front of the whole band is the chief conductor or Generalmusikdirektor of the army. His purpose is to coordinate the playing as a whole, and all the other conductors follow him.
Each of the four bands also has their own conductor with a long baton in front of their respective bands.
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Feels like the final flourish of Prussian militarism, hard to believe a few months after this it all came to an end. Maybe they sensed this would be the last parade.
You say Prussian when this drill is Soviet 😂
@@prodigy-hu6dytheir drills are very prussian with soviet sprinkled in
@prodigy-hu6dy Their traditions were still based on Prussian militarism. This is definitely not a Soviet drill.
Similarities with 1927 are clear:
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Go to Chile then.
Piękna dopracowana w szczegòłach defilada.
Brawo.👏👏👍
A few months later ,as a British paratrooper, I was jumping with the former GDR Fallshirmjager, Now part of the Bundeswehr, We gave them are tour of London, including the Houses of Parliament, Amazing how history can change so quick.
Die einstige deutsche Armee die keinen Krieg verloren hat
Ja,auch 68 nicht den Boden unseres Nachbarlandes betreten, Das hat sogar die UdSSR nicht gewollt.Warum nur He...?
Wo seid ihr gesprungen? Ich war auch in Lehnin.
Gorbachev despised Honecker so much at this point. You can see it on his face.
um ok
Despise honecker I read: not as much as putin hates occident and want to exterminate us..... All those videos and trolls are manipulations channels. To mix history and confuse people. And transform the world into al kaeda
Kein Wunder. Dieser Mensch war sich selbst der Nächste und hat, um sich herum, nichts mehr verstanden.
Горбачева презирают теперь все! В том числе и за предательство Хонакера!
@@DimONTimOFFистория все расставила на свои места! Нет более проклятых людей в наше время, чем Горбачев и Ельцин!
Man kann von der DDR halten was man will aber das war wenigstens noch eine Armee!!!👍
Une armé de pédophile
Одна из лучших армий в Варшавском договоре.
@@КанатТемешпаев😂😂😂😂
I agree with you I think nato would have had a mauling of the first degree most of the officers where ex wehermecht prisoners from stalingrad who brought their ideas with them
Eine Armee, die ohne Gnade auf ihr eigenes Volk schiesst, ist geschissen . Und Typen wie Du, die diese Armee ehren, auf solche wie Du ist auch geschissen.
настоящие немцы. честь и слава.
Communist jew
Были когда то, когда мы их перевоспитали
Σκατα στους Γερμανούς και σε σένα
фашисты всегда остаются фашистами
“re-educated” lmao sure bud they transitioned nicely into a capitalist conservative society, modern day east Germany is Right Wing mostly. the soviet union collapsed. It gave up. You’re ideology is false if it lost to a blubber monster like USA lol. Modern day Russia is way better than the ussr.
Wer hätte jemals daran gedacht, dass kurze Zeit später nach dieser grandios in die Szene gesetzte Militärparade alles verpufft und in sich die Luft auflösen würde?
Im Juni 1988 stand ich vor der Berliner Mauer und dachte, sie hätte ewig gedauert... zum Glück kam es anders!
Thanks for upload
You're welcome! :)
*This is just, PERFECTION!*
Da Werden erinnerungen wach auf sehr Stolz die Ehemalige DDR Einfach Toll..!!!🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🫵🏼🫡…Der DDR…👋…
Einfach ehrlich, die beste Jugend die je gab, in diesen Land verbracht zu haben.danke DDR.
Dunkeldeutsche Hungerleider…💩
Gott sei dankt, dass die Stasi weg ist.
Standing up in the back of an open top car while being driven around in front of a troop formation has always been an interesting thing to see
Memories of a better world when family, relationships, social solidarity, and welfare of society mattered. Gone are the days when people were not completely narcissistic and selfish, when greed wasn't viewed as a virtue, when work wasn't just a rat race where you trample over other people to elevate yourself to the top, before we all became engrossed in mindless consumerism. I can only hope this nightmare we have been living in since the 1980s will end before I die, and I can at least spend a few of my final years living in a REAL society again.
В обществе, где постоянно не хватало элементарной туалетной бумаги, а все деньги тратились на содержание армии? 🤣🤡
At that stage the focus was on workers, family, country, and bread. Now it is only oligarchs, billionaires, and American rappers and pop stars, while everything is just getting more expensive...
Никогда не вернётся та жизнь, капитализм надевал маску с человеческим лицом, только потому что был СССР. Сейчас ему нечего бояться и он показывает свой звериный оскал.
@@Porosenok_miasnoy ah yes because US would totally let socialist states to exist without an army
Liberal brainrot level comment right here xD
Вот это парад! Прусский шаг и настоящие немецкие народные войска
Я служил в Германии,в Дрезден-1978-1980г.г.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
ГСВГ 89-91 ЗГВ
Leichter Stechschritt, Ordnung und Disziplin bis ins kleinste. Kein Vergleich zur heutigen BW.
Man sieht den Soldaten den Stolz auch an, den man heutige oft in der BW vergebens sucht.
...20 Jahre davor....also 1969 war ich einer von denen mit Helm. Wir waren stolz auf unser Land. Heute??? muss man bunt sein und seine Land verachten. Grandiose Entwicklung....
Ich sehe den Soldaten hauptsächlich den Stock im Arsch an...
Schnifflig und Schneidig... Das Musikkorps iss der Hammer...😍
Die deutsche Armee, die niemals Krieg führen mußte.
Чехам и словакам в 68 славно они пизды дали. Те боялись немцам подлянки делать, разговор был короткий-400 трупов провокаторов и ни одного убитого или раненного солдата ННА. В отличии от 120 погибших солдата СА. Вечно мы в милосердных играем.
Ja aber sie haben Menschen an der Mauer ermordet, das sollte man nicht vergessen.
GOTTSEIDANK
Den Krieg hat sie nur gegen anders denkende geführt und gegen Nachbarn und Freunde.
Some of them did fight... Against South Africa 🎉
I was in high school from 1988-1991 in the US and I find it surreal watching this and remembering how quickly things would change in Europe over the next two years. Few of the people in this video had any idea what was coming and if they did, they had no way to know how fast it was coming.
Thank you very mutch for the upload, do you have a video of NVA Zapfenstriech 1989 in good quality?
Yes, I do! But it's about 21 minutes long, compared to the original 35 minutes unfortunately. But you will still enjoy it as takes the best highlights of the Zapfenstreich! :)
Wow, this comment section really is a great example of how extremely black and white many people think. It's like people think the DDR was either a communist utopia or a dystopian hellscape. In reality is was neither. It was probably the best Warschau pact country to live in, had a fairly high living standard, it was still authoritarian, but not nearly as bad as many of the other communist countries.
Live in western europe was still a lot better though.
I noticed this lack of nuance when talking about the Trabant as well. People will praise the 2CV (and fiat 500, or twostroke saabs or DKW's) constantly, but have nothing good to say about the Trabant.
I drive both a 2CV and Trabant as my only cars, and I would argue that if you compare both in the early 60's, the Trabant is the superior car in everything but passenger comfort. By the 80's the it was hopelessly outdated though. It is still a reliable car though, in the DDR the average lifespan was 28 years, and mine is nearly 40 now.
Мозг включите, какое све оружие если входишь в основной состав военного блока вооруженного определенным типом оружия. Снабжение при тотальной войне возможно с организовать только при полном единообразии. @@Cyan_Nightingale
Concerning the quality of life: the DDR/GDR had the highest carbon emission rates in all of Europe due to their reliance on brown coal for heating and producing energy. When you were in the DDR you were able to literally smell it. According to the UN guidelines the DDR would have been categorized as „not inhabitable“.
Gorbachev is standing and thinking "I will sell them out now and tomorrow I will gain the right to advertise "Pizza hut". Mega profit.
Наверняка ему уже всё было известно
Он уже продал в тот момент, абсолютно бессовестный черт!
@@odilachilov937 Er hat alles richtig gemacht. Die Sowjetunion war das größte Verbrechersystem der Menschheitsgeschichte. Als nächstes ist Putin dran.
Das war Verrat oder vielleicht auch nur Gutgläubigkeit. Es war jedenfalls ein sehr schwer zu reparierender Fehler
Горит он в аду!
I was part of this parade on my 22. birthday. what an impression day.
Were you a spectator? Or did you serve in the NVA?
@@MaximusandHistory I was one of those who marched along. In the 1st marching block of the "Ernst Thälmann" Officers' College of the Land Forces. 5th row, second from the right. My father marched in the first parade and I marched in the last. In 1989, I was a student officer in my 2nd year of study in Löbau.
@@lamadongdong It will always amaze me how former participants of this parade continue to leave comments on my channel. Do you get nostalgic when you think back to this parade?
@@MaximusandHistory Perhaps not nostalgia. But the three years surrounding this parade were extremely eventful for me. I became a soldier, met my future wife, the 6 months of parade training, the events in the GDR, the demos. Then the increased military readiness after October 7th, the relief mission in the opencast coal mine. The turnaround in the GDR, the transfer to the West German Bundeswehr in 1990 and discharge 3 months later. Dropping out of university and starting again at a civilian university. All of this and many other stories from this time have left their mark on me. And in the middle of it all, the parade. The last parade in the GDR, although my father was at the first parade. So it was an extreme time, with lots of memories.
@@lamadongdong You were took part in the most important chapter of Cold War History! So it is my honor to be able to talk with with you!
Would you be interested in joining my Discord server?
It's a gaming / social media app where you can chat and text (You don't have to speak, but just text the same way you are doing now on UA-cam) and It's super easy to join! And it's not like traditional social media where you use your real face and name, instead everyone uses completely anonymous names.
I had the honor of inviting another NVA soldier who also took part in the 1989 Parade and he shared his memories with our members. (All of us are born well after 1989) so we have a huge interest in history and we tend to appreciate it more.
Menurut saya, NVA adalah real tentara jerman terakhir.
Lihatlah bagaimana uniform NVA yang bagus dan parade yang luar biasa. Saya rasa, militerisme prussia tidak perlu dihilangkan dari jerman. Dan NVA ini adalah DNA wehrmacht yang sebenarnya.
Namun, Tentara jerman sekarang (bundeswehr) seperti badut.
Ich bin stolz ein ddr
Kind zu sein diese haben uns noch leben lassen diese Bundesregierung vernichtet und meine Lebensqualität l
Tja Gennosse , warum sind euch denn die Leute weggelaufen ?
Warum habt Ihr "Stolzen" denn den Menschen, die das Land verlassen wollten, in den Rücken geschossen?
@@PeterFrey-k7v Dummheit und Stolz...
@@barklex laber keinen mist in den Rücken konnteste schlecht schießen außer du wolltest jemanden auf BRD Gebiet erschießen und nen Skandal verursachen ......außerdem galt der Schusswaffengebrauch nur als letztes Mittel genau wie es zahllose andere Nationen z.B. die USA es heute auch noch machen...... wenn man nach Warnrufen und Warnschüssen noch weiterläuft muss halt damit rechnen auch mal etwas Blei in den Kadaver gepumpt zu bekommen ...... in den meisten Fällen war lediglich grenzenlose Dummheit und Selbstüberschätzung der Grund warum Personen generell in jene Lage gerieten....
@@peterwolfgangwegener3666 sie sind abgehauen weil sie entweder verfolgt und oder von der Staatsmacht diskriminiert wurden ...... viele aber auch um schlichtweg etwas mehr Freiheit genießen zu können als es die SED Klappspaten ihnen erlaubt hätten, andere wiederum gingen weil sie dank Westfernsehen dachten das im Westen großer Wohlstand auf sie wartet und es dort jedem Menschen über alle Maße gut geht ..... HA weit gefehlt....
Dommagecque la Bundeswehr ne marche plus de cette façon et ne joue plus ces marches qui sont très martiales .
…Simple answer…Die Bundeswehr are just Nazis with their balls chopped off by American Occupation since 1945…🇩🇪💩🇩🇪💩🇺🇸…Vassals cowards…👊
Dito! 🙄😏
West Germany was brought up in the spirit of the victorious powers - East Germany was allowed to maintain traditions.
@@Changnoi12 fascist traditions
Je suis d’acc.
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@@MaximusandHistory
Это правда что в нынешней ФРГ люди из ГДР считаются людьми второго сорта ?
Wenn ich heute unsere Handseln sehe wird mir ganz schlecht !!! 😫😫😫
Con alta probabilidad el mejor ejército en su época. Gran disciplina y compromiso. Nunca necesitó probar su valía.
THIS IS GREAT HD VERSION BUT WHY THE BIG WATERMARK AT THE BOTTOM?
12:00 There is not and there will never again be anyone in the world who wields sticks like those front row drummers.
i liked the other upload without the big ugly watermark, good thing i have it downloaded since its exactly the same video without watermark
You can watch the low quality version (without watermark) here: ua-cam.com/video/-XNvWHXl7pM/v-deo.html
Amazing to think that probably none of those soldiers, politicians and spectators had an inkling that the DDR would be extinct in just a few months
Always beware of self confidence
Gorbachev probably did.
I don't know. Everyone participating looks miserable.
The marching band is awesome 👌
Preußen lebte in der DDR weiter.
As a collector of DDR NVA militaria, I find this video quite useful as reference. My copy of the original broadcast, on VHS format, is not quite as sharp. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! This is the original Television broadcast quality in 50 fps, its the best version on the entire internet! :)
I also collect some DDR militaria, especially if they are related to the Musikkorps!
12:00 - 12:40 absolut Perfect.
Wer darf behaupten,das heute noch so hinzubekommen ?
Das war noch eine richtige Show !
Absolute perfection.
It was neat. Wished the modern Bundeswehr had this drip nowadays
Удивительно, нет просто очень удивительно! Спустя 50 лет они носят такую парадную форму похожую на старую по покрою. А брюки галифе это просто картинка! Ведь они вышли из моды много десятилетий раньше! 🤗🏹🇫🇮
Es lebe unsere Kameraden vom Heer und der Marine der DDR. Euer Kamerad von der GSVG😢
Здравствуйте! Я так понимаю, вы из бывшего СССР, но пишите на немецком. И мне стало интересно, солдат ГСВГ учили немецкому языку и письму, да?
@@klon_en учил немецкий в школе и техникуме, потом служил в ГДР.
@@klon_enVIVA STALIN 🩸🩸🩸🩸
Dein Kamerad von den GT der DDR 👍Es lebe UNSERE Heimat
Und wieviel haben Sie auf dem Gewissen, Genosse vom GSVG ?
Was this the last real German Army?
Yes.
This is what a military parade should look like.
I agree, and the military musicians were outstanding! A good military parade always is accompanied by a professional sounding military band.
nah, the one int he late 90s in germany is way better. Straight up prussian shit there.
This looks and marches like a proper German Army that has retained its Prussian tradition.
Yeah. It’s kinda scary.
No it doesn't. There is no "Stechschritt" for a start.
Reminds me of the marches during Hitler’s reign of terror.
А было о чем поговорить Хенекеру и Горбачёву. Настроение неуверенное. Последний год стены.
This is how we felt when watching the last military parade of Rhodesia. Except that was a good country
This is the last ever German marching parade 😢
This was the last DDR parade, and that is good. There is one Germany, and thanks God it is not communist.
Last parade under Soviet tyrants. They managed to set East Germany 30 years behind West Germany. Russians never brought good to anyone
@@alexanderv4609 Das ist gut?
Leck mich du oooaaarrrsssccch
As Shakespeare said, sound and fury signifying nothing. This was May 1989. By the end of the year, DDR was all but dead. It collapsed like a wet paper bag. East Germany, it turned out, had no real substance - it was incapable of independent survival.
After it collapsed, Germany invested 2 trillion DM into the former East Germany.
Unfortunately, it was politically necessary to allow East Germans to exchange 1 Ostmark for 1 DM - but doing so instantly destroyed most East German industry, because at currency parity, the products of East German industry almost all became instantly uncompetitive. East Germany had the strongest economy of the Warsaw Pact, and still, what they produced was grossly uncompetitive with the products of the west, at least at a rate of 1 Ostmark = 1DM.
So, with the exception of the area around Berlin, which is thriving, a lot the rest of the former East Germany looks terrific because of all the govt investment - but is notably depopulated, because a lot of former East Germans live in the western Laender.
@@cv990a4 The Bundesrepublik is dead too... no soul, no connection to German blood, just an economic zone like its overlord the US. Modern Germany is still an occupied lapdog of Zionist globalism. Now the Germans are being replaced by non-white hordes thrust apon them without a whimper from the German population.
Красавцы войска Восточной Германии, ну просто заглядение.
Facade
@@agorazontas5894 Shut up, soy boy!
Prussian tradition.
В Северной Корее лучше парады и вождь харизматичнее
Ich kannte die Ganze Armeeführung persönlich und mit dem Wagen habe ich auch schon eine Runde gedreht 🫡😊 !
Wunderschön🙏
Красиво идут, приятно смотреть! Отличная выправка и выучка! Это действительно Армия!!!
В Северной Корее ещё круче
@@OhhCatsлучше только, в Китае!, ну а ты хоть разок прошел в такой колонне строевым с равнением направо? Думаю, что нет!!!
Поэтому теперь в Германии и не проводят парады. Ничего уже нет
Да да вы правы, еще бордюры хорошо красят и засохшую траву зеленый цвет а все остальное время на плацу подошва стирается за месяц металические набойки приходилось набивать, а как с оружием справляться так пару раз давали по стрелять и все ...остальное время маршировать........парадная армия получается
Outstanding video.
It's my pleasure that you enjoyed this historical footage!
Generaloberst Stechbart saß damals während einer Übung neben mir in einem UAZ 469, als sein Lada-Niva im Gelände versagte. Ich als junger Unteroffizier war natürlich sehr aufgeregt. Aber es war eine unwiederbringliche Begegnung.
Horst Stechbart war oft bei meinen Großeltern zu Gast. Er ging mit meinem Großvater zusamen zur Schule. Sie wuchsen im selben Ort auf.
Cool
if you can, would you be able to upload footage of either 30 Jahre DDR or 25 Jahre DDR or even both. Ive been trying to find full versions for a while and I would appreciate it if you were to get a video of it.
19:58 I swear I heard a hint of Panzerlied.
same here
panzerlied (commuinst remaster)
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My 5y old self was in the audience, my uncle paraded and grandpa watched from the stands. childhood memories! Good I didnt question anything back then but thought tanks were only cool
Well, tanks are cool.
Well, tanks are cool.
@@jefferyindorf699 Well, depends on if you re sitting in one or have to fight one I guess
@@lemonycricket3286 They're still cool either way.
That's amazing and surreal at the same time! What else do you remember from growing up in the DDR?
Bin ebenfalls stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben. Solche brutalen Angriffe auf Deutsche Bürger von Migranten und Flüchtlingen hätte es da nicht gegeben.
Ich habe von 1987 bis 1991 in der DDR-Stadt Magdeburg gedient, T-80-Tanker! Die NVA war eine starke Armee, sie waren die qualifiziertesten Verbündeten, die an gemeinsamen Übungen teilnahmen!
Und was hat eine Armee damit zu tun? Die Sicherheit im Innern ist ja die Sache der Polizei und nicht der Armee. Oder geht die Bundeswehr auf Streife und jagt Kriminelle Ausländer?
Ohne Euch Ossis hätten wir die Migranten gar nicht. Wer hat die denn hereingelassen? Merkel, die Ossi Tante. Also hört auf zu nölen Ihr West Russen.
Nein , dafür habt ihr den Bürgern , die vom Arbeiter und Bauern Paradies die schnauze voll hatten ,am Antifaschistischen Schutzwall in den Rücken geschossen .
Aber wenn sie diejenigen ermordeten, die anders dachten als der Kommunismus, Mörder der Deutschen, dann lebe die Freiheit in der wahren Demokratie und die Kommunisten kehrten nie zurück
Двоюродный брат служил в ГДР, когда он приехал и привез видео магнитофон и на нем была спортивка адидас он был самым крутым для всех нас, многие из бывшего СССР кто проходили службу в этой стране остались только теплые воспоминания!
Stechbarth war mal mein Regimentskommandeur, ist schon lange her.
Hat der auch anständig bei Dir durchgegriffen?
Dem hab ich mal in Löbau das Tor vor der Nase zugemacht.
@@lamadongdong Da hast du richtig gehandelt. Diese arroganten Offiziere konnte sowieso nicht ab.
@@mickymouse7942 Nee, erstens war das keine Absicht und zweitens war ich da gerade Offiziersschüler und auch aus einer Offiziersfamilie. Ich hab Stechbart als Kind persönlich gekannt und empfand ihn eigentlich als sehr angenehm.
Da war mehr Zack drin als bei der Bundeswehr, bei 12:53 mehr Preußen geht gar nicht
Ein unglaublich kitschiger Abgesang auf die Greise auf der Bühne und die ruinierte DDR ! !
Мы в своих немцах не уничтожали их немцкость в отличие от американцев. Наши немцы были немцами!
@@nikname7665
Gebe ich dir vollkommen recht!
Und alles eine Größe wie bei der Deutschen Schutzstaffel, wer soll sich dabei was denken, Deutsche halt🤔
@@nikname7665actually, it's the other way around : the Russians (Soviets) took over Prussian marching. It's still present in Russian and some post Soviet militaries.
Awesome East German Military Parade ❤ I miss them really 🤣
Su banda de músicos, es muy ordenada, el desplazamiento es espectacular, me gusta.
The most recent time in world history where you can see Germans goosestepping
half assed ya
best quality!
More germany than the current one
Not really
Genau komme mir in Berlin vor wie ein Dauerurlauber in einem fremden Land
@@Alex-fw8pudie frechen Invasoren im heutigen Berlin würden sich vor den Soldaten der NVA einnässen!
Ich war am 1.Mai 1976 oder 1977 als Teilnehmer dabei. Der Republikpalast wurde damals eröffnet. Ja, obwohl ich heute sehr gut Bayern lebe hat diese Offiersschülerausbildung vieles an Brauchbares für ein geordnettes und zielstrebiges Leben gebracht. Heute wird ja nur noch geschlampert. Ohne Ordnung und ein Mindestmass an Disziplin bricht alles zusammen.
@@Alex-fw8pu Berlinestan.
Such a strong nation having such a glorious celebration. I'm sure they all had a strong future together. Looking forward to the 80th anniversary of the DDR in a few years.
1989 Germany: Military parade
2023 Germany: Pride parade 😂
:(
Yes! I rather have people celebrate freedom than a dictatorial regime celebrating itself.
Die Obersten Riege waren einfach nur Irre , aber die Armee war noch eine Armee !!! 💪🎀💪
Einer der Geschosswerfer war meiner...🤭
Aber die haben die Armee wnigstens zu dem gemacht was sie war in bester preussischer Tradition mit ausdrücklicjer Zustimmung der Russen
Heute haben wir wieder so eine Riege !