1989 East German Military Parade

1989 East German Military Parade | 40 Jahre DDR

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Footage of the October 7, 1989 Military Parade held on Karl Marx Allee in East Berlin to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the German Democratic Republic.
Watch as soldiers of the National People's Army march in the last parade to ever be held in East Germany.
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Chapters:
0:00 Start of Parade
1:38 Paradefanfare (Gerhard Baumann)
2:47 Präsentiermarsch der Nationalen Volksarmee
9:55 Auferstanden aus Ruinen (East German Anthem)
11:05 Marsch der Elisabether
11:59 Parademarsch der Spielleute
12:31 Preußischer Lockmarsch
12:41 Parademarsch der NVA Nr. 1
17:19 Preußischer Lockmarsch
17:29 Kampflieder-Potpourri Marsch
21:41 Jung Sind Die Linden Marsch
24:06 Marsch der Nationalen Volksarmee
24:30 Sylvianer Marsch
26:21 Straßenmarsch Nr. 1
27:25 Preußischer Lockmarsch
27:35 Yorckscher Marsch

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@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

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@nietzchepreacher9477 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@onjon7043 Жыл бұрын

@@MaximusandHistory Is there a video of the whole process of the parade for the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin?

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

@@onjon7043 There is, but some channel already uploaded it!

@donreed Жыл бұрын

What was the exact date of this event, and the exact date, if one exists, of the collapse of East Germany?

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@AnonAnonAnon Жыл бұрын

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.

@solideshalbwissen Жыл бұрын

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.

@Anuclano Жыл бұрын

Well, we should praise the politicians that they finally restrained from the war. Unlike current times...

@charlesaferg Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. It really gives younger generations a dose of reality.

@mshkotnyar Жыл бұрын

Some of the ordinary folk are defending his country today

@dieterwolfgangkohler Жыл бұрын

Da war die DDR mit den Warschauer Pakt noch eine Macht. Was ist jetzt aus den DDR Bürgern geworden,???

@odilachilov937 Ай бұрын

Служил в ГДР, в Группе Советских Войск в Германии, прекрасная страна!

@ducthuan.tran. 10 ай бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory 10 ай бұрын

You should check my out my other video. Its about the Vietnamese visiting the DDR!

@ducthuan.tran. 10 ай бұрын

@@MaximusandHistory Thank you for your recommendation. I know Vietnamese life in Gemany because my uncle lives there now.

@kosmosfaber6534 4 ай бұрын

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

@LEK-we2hh 3 ай бұрын

Simson was in Hungsry too. Wartburg auto.

@LowSkillSurvival 3 ай бұрын

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.

@Mark-yy2py Жыл бұрын

A mix of Prussian marching traditions, thrown in with a mix of some Soviet Marching traditions.

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

Correct.

@OutnBacker Жыл бұрын

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.

@vlabruic Жыл бұрын

Тешко срање

@thomdin Жыл бұрын

Auf deinen Mist was du zum besten gibst haben wir gewartet

@thomdin Жыл бұрын

@@OutnBacker 😢das wusste ich bis jetzt nicht,wie hieß gleich der russische Kaiser,

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Жыл бұрын

The two drivers maintaining formation in Soviet Chaikas showed great skill. The twin 180 degree turns came off flawlessly.

@glennmartin6492 Жыл бұрын

I was hoping they'd race each other.

@JPoulAndersson Жыл бұрын

Even though they were commies, they’re still Germans…😊

@pezazul2917 Жыл бұрын

@@glennmartin6492they had to. Otherwise stasi takes care and ends his careers . A Final service to the state

@agadez4015 Жыл бұрын

@@pezazul2917 where do you guys come up with this crap?

@pezazul2917 Жыл бұрын

@@agadez4015 rela man, its a joke. Anyway Who knows?

@majestikagler3027 3 ай бұрын

Браво германской народной армии ГДР респект за выправку строевую подготовку и воинские традиции блестящий парад! Светлая память Хонекеру!

@letecmig 2 ай бұрын

:):) the moment war started, 95% of GDR soldiers and officers would immediately switch sides to West Germany/US the moment war started;)

@pooq6611 2 ай бұрын

@letecmig Если честно то что сделал советский союз для Германии это даже не подзатыльник а лёгкий пинок.Если бы вместо СССР была бы например Испанская империя,Британская империя,Римская империя или Древний Египет вряд-ли бы Германия осталась - индейцы америки,доколониальные африканцы,евреи или крафагеняни это почувствовали хотя сделали миниум тех зверств которые совершила Германия,и потеряли практически все.Германия по итогу сохранилась потеряв лишь часть территорий.

@user-xh2we7lu4p Ай бұрын

сдохла гдр

@redrickschuchart6425 Ай бұрын

@@letecmigУверены в этом?)

@user-bz7wp3mr8z 28 күн бұрын

Эко тебя как торкнуло!

@thomasliesch412 3 ай бұрын

Das war noch eine Armee!

@thomashoegg9481 2 ай бұрын

Wenn Sie konnten haben Sie gesoffen. War selbst 3 Jahre dabei.

@user-ny2ke1qu1b 2 ай бұрын

Wir brauchen keine Armee, einfach keinen Krieg anzetteln reicht.

@pavelpavlov8556 14 күн бұрын

Wehrmacht ще победи лесно "армията" на DDR...

@stuff38 8 ай бұрын

Ach was sind die Truppenfahnen für ein Genuss. Herrliche Parade. Vielen Dank für die Zuverfügungstellung der Aufnahmen.

@ricardodutra9862 4 күн бұрын

Comunismo não representou nada, ao mundo, apenas 100 milhões de mortos.

@marclandreville6367 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

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!

@sonckebecker8725 Жыл бұрын

"It was my first and only visit to East Germany." That's my suggestion: Go there now. 😊

@Chronoxile 3 ай бұрын

@@sonckebecker8725 Late but he was refering to the country... it fell apart 4 weeks after this parade.

@salchaw Жыл бұрын

i can't believe it's already 34 years ago... time flies !

@walterweiss7124 Жыл бұрын

longer than that goddam wall existed

@marcoshac9337 Жыл бұрын

Now brainless idiots in the west want it back.

@marcoshac9337 Жыл бұрын

@Ozi Bits like economic prosperity and individual freedom. Such bad things. You should live in your paradise in North Korea

@Yora21 Жыл бұрын

@Ozi Bits Oh, fuck off, Nazi!

@Yora21 Жыл бұрын

The Wall has already been down longer than it was up.

@port-artyr Ай бұрын

Я служил в Германии,в Дрезден-1978-1980г.г.

@agungprasetyo2665 8 ай бұрын

More germany than the current one

@Kalashnikov413 8 ай бұрын

Not really

@Alex-fw8pu Ай бұрын

Genau komme mir in Berlin vor wie ein Dauerurlauber in einem fremden Land

@badschbenza8126 Ай бұрын

@@Alex-fw8pudie frechen Invasoren im heutigen Berlin würden sich vor den Soldaten der NVA einnässen!

@thomasborger1783 Ай бұрын

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.

@dieterdodel835 17 күн бұрын

@@Alex-fw8pu Berlinestan.

@opathe2nd973 Жыл бұрын

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!

@jungleify 8 ай бұрын

I hope that piece of wall is enclosed in glass. Its Full of asbestos

@parhamkhalaj-eu2pj 8 ай бұрын

زنده با شوروی سابق

@parhamkhalaj-eu2pj 8 ай бұрын

آلمان شرقی آلمان اصیل بود

@fuuz642 3 ай бұрын

@@jungleify mine is. I kind of suspect it to be fake though

@waffle_burger8499 Жыл бұрын

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.

@user-wh9qz3eo9s Жыл бұрын

Последний парад ГДР!!! Очень печально.(((

@alexanderk7671 11 ай бұрын

Горбачев всех сдал

@user-gk7qb7xo8l Ай бұрын

Что тут печального ? Две Германии обьединились в одно целое

@user-tf6nq7xj7q Ай бұрын

@@user-gk7qb7xo8lГДР была лучшей Германией из двух.

@user-gk7qb7xo8l Ай бұрын

@@user-tf6nq7xj7q Да ну нах . А ха ха ха , на верное из за хорошей жизни люди валили через стену в ФРГ .

@user-tf6nq7xj7q Ай бұрын

@@user-gk7qb7xo8l в любой популяции есть небольшой % идиотов. Вот они и валили. Ну еще верящие в сказки тоже.

@holly0311 2 ай бұрын

Schnifflig und Schneidig... Das Musikkorps iss der Hammer...😍

@georgbuchner7153 Жыл бұрын

Only four weeks later was it over.

@Basedlocation 11 ай бұрын

I cri everytime

@user-pf8xl1pm1u 2 ай бұрын

Ja genau , von Politikern verraten!

@notroll1279 2 ай бұрын

@@user-pf8xl1pm1u Eher vom Volk abgeworfen...

@faouzielmir9894 Ай бұрын

Gorbatchev is responsible

@husseinoskovjino9398 27 күн бұрын

@@faouzielmir9894Yeltsin is

@ernestpaniagua1210 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

in west berlin stationed and you was on this parade??? i dont think so

@ernestpaniagua1210 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@felipeangeles4194 Жыл бұрын

You went to a communists parade being an American soldier? No mames Pinocchio !

@Thargor3000 Жыл бұрын

@@ernestpaniagua1210 no you was never in east berlin at this time

@ernestpaniagua1210 Жыл бұрын

@@Thargor3000 oh I was you probably weren't even born jr kick rocks

@binaway 11 ай бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory 9 ай бұрын

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."

@user-qk5tc9qm4j 6 ай бұрын

И это былой немецкой военной мощи. Немцы хотя нас убивали мы их уважали.

@user-qk5tc9qm4j 6 ай бұрын

Сейчас опять хотят, но это последняя война для немцев будет. Мы приедем.

@gunslinger0963 3 ай бұрын

Bundeswehr didnt use it, because they only have light infantry und Stechschritt is only used by line Infantry

@85Prix 5 күн бұрын

@@user-qk5tc9qm4jуже приехали, конечная😂😂😂

@marionryschka743 2 ай бұрын

Bin aus der ehemaligen DDR und bin heute stolz darauf früher dabei gewesen sein, im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester.

@karlaheidel8648 11 күн бұрын

Da können Sie auch stolz sein, es war eine Armee des Friedens!

@frankgorek3693 9 күн бұрын

@@karlaheidel8648das war die Bundeswehr auch

@svend.7324 4 күн бұрын

"...im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester." ...bemerkenswert...

@antonmarch2684 Сағат бұрын

Das macht schon was her Deine Volksarmee. Wenn man das mit der heutigen Bundeswehr vergleicht müssten Ihnen doch die Tränen kommen?

@MyManicmonday 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@raymondlescott6092 Жыл бұрын

Prussian Officer Corps still lives!

@costatitan8458 Жыл бұрын

The ugly soviet style helmets are terrible

@manicmangomango8118 Жыл бұрын

@@costatitan8458 they are ww2 era helmets designed by nazi engineers, not soviet

@dmitrypavlov872 Жыл бұрын

@@raymondlescott6092 I hope so.

@farmalmta Жыл бұрын

@@manicmangomango8118 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.

@PineappleOnPizza69 Жыл бұрын

*12:38** holy sheet that turn was neat.*

@user-pn4yv8sy9c Жыл бұрын

настоящие немцы. честь и слава.

@rainerklessinger8843 10 ай бұрын

Communist jew

@user-il3rw6hq4w 4 ай бұрын

Были когда то, когда мы их перевоспитали

@michopoulosal 4 ай бұрын

Σκατα στους Γερμανούς και σε σένα

@user-dp8rk2cu9s Ай бұрын

фашисты всегда остаются фашистами

@user-nc1io9bd8j 7 ай бұрын

Ich bin stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben, der letzten deutschen Armee.

@MaximusandHistory 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind comment! What years did you serve?

@user-nc1io9bd8j 7 ай бұрын

Ich hab als Feldgendarm von Frühjahr 1984 bis Herbst 1985 gedient.@@MaximusandHistory

@horstbluesman54 6 ай бұрын

Es ist nicht die letzte deutsche Armee, ein Irrtum oder Propaganda.

@ha61871 6 ай бұрын

@@user-nc1io9bd8jGlory to you! ❤

@dromo76 6 ай бұрын

Good for the soldiers that served. But they didn’t know what government they served.

@billygoodmeme7635 2 жыл бұрын

I genuinely hope the best for your channel. It's important to preserve history

@hoppinggnomethe4154 Жыл бұрын

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.

@nicolenicole2389 Жыл бұрын

To manipulate history you mean

@dieterwolfgangkohler Жыл бұрын

Wer sind heute die Kriegsverbrecher in Deutschland???

@MrNajibrazak Жыл бұрын

@@nicolenicole2389 u must be one of the woke toxic westerners. YUCK

@guisousa7139 Жыл бұрын

@@nicolenicole2389 What? How?

@Mike-br8zt Жыл бұрын

What memories. I was in the DDR and Poland in 1988 and you could feel something in the air.

@MerleUnchained Жыл бұрын

Yeah, total loss of faith in communism.

@jody6851 Жыл бұрын

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.

@avenueb Жыл бұрын

you could smell socialism it was stale

@PolakInHolland Жыл бұрын

@@MerleUnchained There never was any faith. Poles never wanted it.

@BG_Low Жыл бұрын

You mean the smell of radioactive from Chernobyl, right?

@stevenmajor9513 11 ай бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory 11 ай бұрын

The 90 degree turn is called the "Schwenk", its a Prussian tradition!

@stevenmajor9513 11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@MaximusandHistory 11 ай бұрын

@@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

@MaximusandHistory 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@conyfalko5049 Ай бұрын

Ich habe von 1982 bis 1984 18 Monate in dieser Armee als Artellerist meinen Dienst geleistet. Zusammen mit russischen Soldaten drei Manöver überstanden und soooooo nah damals schon am 3.weltkrieg

@Viktor_SU 9 күн бұрын

А сейчас, друг мой, мы еще ближе к ней, чем тогда!!

@85Prix 5 күн бұрын

@@Viktor_SU😂 да неужели???

@wxyxx4795 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the upload! Words cannot describe how much i enjoy this clip. Truly amazing!

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

And there's still more to come!

@NandiCollector 2 жыл бұрын

*This is just, PERFECTION!*

@frederickgates4349 Жыл бұрын

Truly i'm stunned 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

@resireg Жыл бұрын

@@MaximusandHistory what brand and model is the limousine the general is Riding?

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

@@resireg GAZ 13-B "Chaika"

@Acoran Жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this!

@ingeburgazami7474 2 ай бұрын

Ich bin aus der DDR und bin Stolz darauf.

@earlystrings1 10 ай бұрын

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.

@darwinqpenaflorida3797 Ай бұрын

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

@user-ny6ql8yi4e Ай бұрын

Да горбатый, сука, всех сдал - и своих и союзников

@krle7970 23 күн бұрын

Last “true” Prussian parade, as in Germans. The drill survives all over the world, most notably in chile

@darwinqpenaflorida3797 23 күн бұрын

@@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 😊😊

@Arkan.97 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats on the new channel 👏 hope it'll grow bigger and better

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video!

@marchesofgermany2755 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@pauleypavillion6088 Жыл бұрын

ITs too bad that Germany today are not using this type of Prussian military band and these type of soldiers.

@williamjackson5942 Жыл бұрын

@@pauleypavillion6088 The German Army plays many of the same tunes as always, you are confused!

@pezazul2917 Жыл бұрын

@@williamjackson5942limk?

@Triggernlfrl Жыл бұрын

@@williamjackson5942 Only when it is aproved by the occupiers....

@r.c.s.3192 Жыл бұрын

It is a video recording of the live broadcast of the GDR state television at the time!

@olafge 10 ай бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory 10 ай бұрын

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.

@olafge 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@MaximusandHistory 10 ай бұрын

@@olafge It is quite surreal to see so many people who were actually in Berlin around this time watching my KZfaq videos. I've had countless American, British and former East German soldiers leave comments on my videos, sharing their experiences all here on KZfaq. 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.

@Alan-gx8gf 10 ай бұрын

Double the Speed of the Film and I am sure you will see it in a different light , hilarious ! 😎

@cheswick617 10 ай бұрын

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.

@albert21able 2 ай бұрын

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.

@DietmarBeil-wi3zv 2 ай бұрын

Die einstige deutsche Armee die keinen Krieg verloren hat

@Bigsky1991 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

How close were you to the parade ground? That's amazing!

@user-oe3mb1gr8c 2 жыл бұрын

The last German military parde.

@Changnoi12 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@rlm2933 2 жыл бұрын

The last one was in 1945

@foxrotneinnein1968 2 жыл бұрын

@@rlm2933 wdym

@jimjimsandbern9382 2 жыл бұрын

@@rlm2933 The last East German parade.

@Mr.DalekLK 2 жыл бұрын

Nah

@wilfriedhorn169 23 күн бұрын

Ehrenvoll gedient bis zum letzten Tag der Zeit des Wehrdienstes 🪖

@klim-dim682 4 ай бұрын

Gorbachev is standing and thinking "I will sell them out now and tomorrow I will gain the right to advertise "Pizza hut". Mega profit.

@aexgorov9619 2 ай бұрын

Наверняка ему уже всё было известно

@odilachilov937 Ай бұрын

Он уже продал в тот момент, абсолютно бессовестный черт!

@peterschmidt5790 2 жыл бұрын

12:00 - 12:40 absolut Perfect.

@alexxd500 2 жыл бұрын

Wer darf behaupten,das heute noch so hinzubekommen ? Das war noch eine richtige Show !

@garypulliam3740 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute perfection.

@PineappleOnPizza69 Жыл бұрын

It was neat. Wished the modern Bundeswehr had this drip nowadays

@robertshonk518 Жыл бұрын

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.

@dunbustin Жыл бұрын

It looks like Nicolae Ceaușescu at 10:10. Little did anyone know what was to be his unenviable fate a few months later.

@erik_griswold Жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing this out.

@tech9803 Жыл бұрын

@dunbustin Also Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Yasir Arafat

@spikespa5208 Жыл бұрын

A veritable gallery of communist honchos and their friends, 1989

@libertycowboy2495 11 ай бұрын

American communists....now just democrats.😡

@moln8077 9 ай бұрын

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! 🤗🏹🇫🇮

@hartmutlorentzen9659 Ай бұрын

Das Interessanteste sind wie so häufig die Kommentare!

@ernestpaniagua1210 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

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

@ernestpaniagua1210 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

@@ernestpaniagua1210 Where you in Berlin at the time?

@vwdubguy1 Жыл бұрын

Ganz dunkel

@ernestpaniagua1210 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Tom-kn4hx 2 жыл бұрын

Just amazing! Great quality! Thanks.

@user-cf4zm6yr7v Ай бұрын

Молодцы немцы. Зачётный парад.

@spastikusmaximus7146 2 ай бұрын

Herrlich!

@marklunam4079 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. The way the band turns left is amazing.

@flatterfotze8667 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@user-oh1sv8vz2y 2 жыл бұрын

Муштра туды её в качель но иначе такое не достигается.

@PineappleOnPizza69 Жыл бұрын

It was neat right. You can see the discipline

@knyazigorthe8617 Жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

@dabsy123 Жыл бұрын

Nazis and Prussians did the same...all been passed down to even the goose stepping..

@shalashaska5851 Жыл бұрын

Gorbachev despised Honecker so much at this point. You can see it on his face.

@TheMerryPrangster Жыл бұрын

um ok

@nicolenicole2389 Жыл бұрын

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

@maka2150 2 ай бұрын

Kein Wunder. Dieser Mensch war sich selbst der Nächste und hat, um sich herum, nichts mehr verstanden.

@DimONTimOFF Ай бұрын

Горбачева презирают теперь все! В том числе и за предательство Хонакера!

@plf2813 Ай бұрын

@@DimONTimOFFистория все расставила на свои места! Нет более проклятых людей в наше время, чем Горбачев и Ельцин!

@user-yj2uh4eo8g 2 ай бұрын

Die deutsche Armee, die niemals Krieg führen mußte.

@user-ip1pu1lq9q 25 күн бұрын

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.

@user-pp9od2yo6z Ай бұрын

Es gibt immer ewig gestrige

@user-fi1kk5ge5d Жыл бұрын

Красавцы войска Восточной Германии, ну просто заглядение.

@agorazontas5894 Жыл бұрын

Facade

@Mr.Z1989 Жыл бұрын

@@agorazontas5894 Shut up, soy boy!

@vlasguby66 2 ай бұрын

gay

@walangchahangyelingden8252 Ай бұрын

Prussian tradition.

@pikitsy 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for upload

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :)

@viya706 Ай бұрын

Отличный парад .По цтв в СССР не разу не видел,только войска СА.

@rene-75 10 ай бұрын

hermosa parada militar de alemania y seguir la tendencia prusiana, saludos desde chile

@MaximusandHistory 10 ай бұрын

Chile proudly continues Prussian military tradition! Thank you for the kind comment!

@TheNeojimmy 10 ай бұрын

Pero esa es Alemania Oriental, no tiene relación con la doctrina prusiana de Chile 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ que es de la Alemania Prusiana

@charliedex111 10 ай бұрын

Es Alemania del Este, son más soviéticos que nada

@Stamsite111 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very mutch for the upload, do you have a video of NVA Zapfenstriech 1989 in good quality?

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

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! :)

@mieszkokoniecpolski5621 Жыл бұрын

Piękna dopracowana w szczegòłach defilada. Brawo.👏👏👍

@peterlojewski7057 11 ай бұрын

I was in West Berlin at this time . I'm Canadian soldier that time , stationed in Soest . My uncle and family lived in West Berlin . I went to visit them twice. I had to fly into Berlin. Not allowed to go any other way . Could not wear my army uniform. Canada not part of the forces to occupy West Berlin.

@MaximusandHistory 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this anecdote! Always love reading comments like yours! There seems to be a lot of former soldiers who were in Germany at the time making comments on my video!

@andreywp8705 29 күн бұрын

Последние немецкие мужчины. Последняя немецкая армия. Auferstanden aus Ruinen...

@worldclassflags Жыл бұрын

Хорошая подборка видео истории! Желаю удачи в развитии канала!

@jehudgoldstein6971 Жыл бұрын

🇷🇺🐷🇷🇺 Russenschweine 🇷🇺🐷🇷🇺

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

If you enjoyed the video, please support my channel. I will be uploading more amazing content as seen here!

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

@Das Marokkanische Kaiserreich I appreciate the love! I hope the channel grows into something big! :)

@user-oh1sv8vz2y 2 жыл бұрын

@@MaximusandHistory Это правда что в нынешней ФРГ люди из ГДР считаются людьми второго сорта ?

@oparudi2248 2 жыл бұрын

Wenn ich heute unsere Handseln sehe wird mir ganz schlecht !!! 😫😫😫

@luismachucam.3210 2 жыл бұрын

Con alta probabilidad el mejor ejército en su época. Gran disciplina y compromiso. Nunca necesitó probar su valía.

@MrDICKHEAD28 Жыл бұрын

THIS IS GREAT HD VERSION BUT WHY THE BIG WATERMARK AT THE BOTTOM?

@redcar9949 Жыл бұрын

The most recent time in world history where you can see Germans goosestepping

@arfshesaid4325 11 ай бұрын

half assed ya

@brianrunyon266 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for uploading this. American, and a history buff, and part German as well.

@scanida5070 2 жыл бұрын

Not truly in a German fashion but still quite impressive! Especially the hand movements of the drummers at 12:18

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@scanida5070 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@scanida5070 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jimijarvinenorgan 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@randylidilc5516 Жыл бұрын

The marching band is awesome 👌

@user-vs4nq4eh3p 11 ай бұрын

Мы живём с вами во времена,когда прошлое становится реальностью с такой скоростью, что хочется себя ущипнуть, чтобы понять ☕☕уж не кошмар ли это.

@JEEROFUKU 2 ай бұрын

Es lebe unsere Kameraden vom Heer und der Marine der DDR. Euer Kamerad von der GSVG😢

@klon_en Ай бұрын

Здравствуйте! Я так понимаю, вы из бывшего СССР, но пишите на немецком. И мне стало интересно, солдат ГСВГ учили немецкому языку и письму, да?

@JEEROFUKU Ай бұрын

@@klon_en учил немецкий в школе и техникуме, потом служил в ГДР.

@fumantxus2623 Ай бұрын

@@klon_enVIVA STALIN 🩸🩸🩸🩸

@daraka1754 Жыл бұрын

My dad from Bulgaria lived in DDR, in East Berlin 1986-1988

@Yourfavgerman_15 Жыл бұрын

This is the last ever German marching parade 😢

@Etendard1708 Жыл бұрын

The last ever pseudo-german parade by the German assistant of Soviet occupation force. LOL even NVA small arms were not from German origin (AKM and PKM) compared to Bundeswehr which designed & manufactured their own small arms (H&K MP5, G3, Rheinmetall MG3 a.k.a. incarnation of MG42)

@alexanderv4609 Жыл бұрын

This was the last DDR parade, and that is good. There is one Germany, and thanks God it is not communist.

@spa2133 Жыл бұрын

Last parade under Soviet tyrants. They managed to set East Germany 30 years behind West Germany. Russians never brought good to anyone

@Etendard1708 Жыл бұрын

Hi Ivan, still b*tthurt not getting what you want? LOL. Now you should worry more about China producing unlicensed Russian weapons & also taking over Russia's global influence, thanks to Putin's lack understanding of Soviet (his own beloved) history. China betrayed Soviet Union after it had learned much from Soviet (Sino-Soviet Split), then China betrayed US after did the same, now it's time for China to do the same to Russia 🤣

@vbxxx4895 Жыл бұрын

@@alexanderv4609 Das ist gut? Leck mich du oooaaarrrsssccch

@thomastheile713 2 ай бұрын

Ich bin Stolz das ich in der DDR geboren wurde

@makszverev4556 Ай бұрын

Я тоже

@newstar1835 29 күн бұрын

💙💛💙💛💙💛

@user-ss6hl5wg4o 27 күн бұрын

Как можно гордиться что родился в плену????

@uweklein7898 27 күн бұрын

Stolz kann man doch eigentlich nur auf etwas sein, was man selbst geleistet hat. Wie kann ich also Stolz darauf sein in einem bestimmten Land geboren worden zu sein, da man persönlich hierzu nichts beigetragen hat. Insofern finde ich den Begriff "Stolz" hier nicht unbedingt angebracht, auch wenn der wesentliche Teil der Leser vermuten können, was hier ausgedrückt werden soll.

@JohnJones-rg4cv 23 күн бұрын

I am a white South African and you guys were our enemy in the Cold War, but even I feel proud watching this. This illustrates why the German military was so respected through the ages.

@GermanSniperr Жыл бұрын

Irgendwie schade, das es sowas heute nicht mehr in dem Ausmaß gibt

@mehmetdereroberer5553 Жыл бұрын

Anstatt dessen gibt es jetzt LGBT und CSD paraden 😢

@SD_Alias 11 ай бұрын

@@mehmetdereroberer5553 Zieh dir doch ne Uniform an und geh marschieren…

@holger_p 8 ай бұрын

Findest Du das so unterhaltsam ? Da hat schon damals kaum jemand zugeschaut.

@seitetrang 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! 💖💖💖

@flatterfotze8667 2 жыл бұрын

... "netter Kommentar", schreib klares Deutsch, oder schweig einfach!

@sidremus Жыл бұрын

@@flatterfotze8667 dir hat auch wer ins Hirn geschissen, oder?

@brasilbrasil9367 Жыл бұрын

Topissimooooooooo uma lenda mesmo de verdade

@dlennox1629 Ай бұрын

They march very well....

@carlosbago7665 8 ай бұрын

Excelente desfile. Sin palabras

@sergiogregorat1830 Жыл бұрын

12:00 There is not and there will never again be anyone in the world who wields sticks like those front row drummers.

@user-cd2tg2gs4e Жыл бұрын

А было о чем поговорить Хенекеру и Горбачёву. Настроение неуверенное. Последний год стены.

@waldemardiaz4454 Жыл бұрын

Very nicely 👌 done.

@user-gp3hn4et7b 2 ай бұрын

Лучшее друзьям, вы германцы помните, что вы наши друзья, кто об этом забывать должен?

@riovoneinzbern8849 2 жыл бұрын

best quality!

@brutusl2786 Жыл бұрын

Love the 1955 styling on the chaikas. They have the little jet engines in the bumpers. I’m sure this will be a much watched video in Germany today.

@evolvedape2161 Жыл бұрын

Few in Germany reminisce for a time where they were under Russia’s heel.

@brutusl2786 Жыл бұрын

@@evolvedape2161 I was being facetious

@evolvedape2161 Жыл бұрын

@@brutusl2786 My mistake

@evolvedape2161 11 ай бұрын

@@user-xm5ix4rt9s Sorry, I don't speak barbarian.

@smainouazene5561 Жыл бұрын

Bravo pour le défilé, merci pour cette vidéo 📹.

@cityplanconsultores2188 Жыл бұрын

que especial, la mezcla de los estilos sovietico y prusiano en esta parada alemana, con la presencia del premier sovietico, Mijail Gorvachov

@shovedhead 4 ай бұрын

12:12 where can I find one of those snare drums.

@MaximusandHistory 4 ай бұрын

Those are tenor drums and they are very expensive and rare, most are in the hands of private collectors or museums.

@steffencocconi8474 2 ай бұрын

Erst Sommer 89 zum Raketenschießen, danach zur Parade 40. Jahrestag. Zwei Monate später wurde ich entlassen. Das war meine NVA Zeit.

@MaximusandHistory Ай бұрын

You took part in this parade?

@user-hv9hy4vt5j 2 жыл бұрын

В ГДР, в ННА ГДР сохранился настоящий прусский воинский дух и армейские традиции.

@user-ok3nn5op6y Жыл бұрын

с этим полностью согласен, не знаю, как думают немцы, но для нас выглядит именно так, наши политики решили не унижать немецкий народ, а дать им совместную победу над фашизмом гитлеровской Германии, потому и сохраняли их национальные традиции.

@KronStaro Жыл бұрын

какой бред конечно же.... во первых. Пруссия это исторический враг России, никакого духа Советы в ГДР не оставили от Пруссии. Вовторых, посмотрите на парады Нацисткой Германии и это и сравните....

@cv990a4 Жыл бұрын

@@user-ok3nn5op6y That's nonsense. The way Germany was arranged after WWII served to destroy Prussia to the maximum extent possible. This was not an accident. It is very clear a goal of the USSR was to destroy the Prussian streak in the German national character. A lot of historic Prussia ended up permanently in Poland, where it was emptied of Germans. Russia even kept part of East Prussia for itself (Kaliningrad) filling it with Russians. The Hohenzollern homeland, Brandenburg, was consigned to East Germany, where all large land holdings were expropriated, thereby destroying what remained of the Prussian aristocracy. West Germany was therefore founded on a non-Prussian foundation. Adenauer was a Rhinelander. West Germany was therefore largely a non-Prussian German state (yes, Rhineland was one of the parts of Prussia after 1815, but no one ever confused the Rhineland for the real Prussia, given its large Catholic population). And interestingly, and again this was not an accident, when the USSR agreed to German reunification, it did so under the condition that the DDR land expropriations could not be reversed. The USSR was determined that the wooden stake remain in the Prussian heart. And thus the Prussian heritage of the current Germany was, to the maximum extent possible, permanently eliminated. Former Prussian aristocrats have sought to recover their lands in the former East Germany, and post-unification German courts have agreed - this cannot be reversed.

@user-jn3cg7jt9t Жыл бұрын

@@cv990a4 А кто вообще разделил Германию и уничтожил пруссию, хотя родина нацизма как раз Бавария? Не американские ли душелюбы и людоведы? Под оккупацией которых немцы и сейчас

@cv990a4 Жыл бұрын

@@user-jn3cg7jt9t Utter nonsense.

@user-re3di2mu4z Жыл бұрын

Спасибо за интересное видео и сохранение памяти о прошлом. Успехов в творчестве и всего самого хорошего😊

@MaximusandHistory Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@user-re3di2mu4z Жыл бұрын

@@MaximusandHistory Пожалуйста😊

@Ded-Miron Жыл бұрын

правильное виде для совкодрочеров.

@ronaldmessina4229 7 ай бұрын

Another selfish idiot who wants all of the language in anglosajón. All of the languages are correct to explain the situation

@user-zk2gy3ht9l 3 ай бұрын

Мы не были врагами...

@maka2150 2 ай бұрын

Und sind es auch jetzt nicht. Wir sollen es nur denken. Wie früher. Der Mensch ist und bleibt ein Arschloch.

@noobuswonder6547 8 ай бұрын

This feels like ancient history yet i would be born 7 years after this. Crazy to think about.

@scanida5070 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@MaximusandHistory 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@chengtianheng6219 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jimijarvinenorgan Жыл бұрын

@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.

@user-pm2nb8xt7n 10 ай бұрын

@user-qk3zw5gq2d Жыл бұрын

Я был на последней демонстрации и параде 1-го мая 1989 года в Берлине. С теплотой вспоминаю ГДР, те времена и тех людей!

@smart4986 Жыл бұрын

штази тоже с теплотой вспоминаете?)

@alexandersell1918 Жыл бұрын

@@smart4986 да недосмотрел штази такого лгбтешника как ты

@smart4986 Жыл бұрын

@@alexandersell1918 товарищ саша, ты очень сильно выдаешь себя))) Нигде нет про лгбт, а тебя прям туда тянет. Ну хочешь им быть - будь, но не надо это афишировать 😆

@flonkplonk1649 11 ай бұрын

@@smart4986todays agencies (or western in general) are much worse

@smart4986 11 ай бұрын

@@flonkplonk1649 yes of course, there are a lot of jails in germany now, borders are closed and 5% of population of the west are agents (sarcasm)

@krustyclown2152 10 ай бұрын

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.

@user-oc6so8er2s Ай бұрын

В обществе, где постоянно не хватало элементарной туалетной бумаги, а все деньги тратились на содержание армии? 🤣🤡

@joebleak1354 5 ай бұрын

Я маршировал на этом"Плаце". Фюрстенвальде на Шпрее.88.

@dhowe5180 Жыл бұрын

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

@agorazontas5894 Жыл бұрын

Always beware of self confidence

@afitz34 Жыл бұрын

Gorbachev probably did.

@Yora21 Жыл бұрын

I don't know. Everyone participating looks miserable.

@josephbokor6738 2 жыл бұрын

Dommagecque la Bundeswehr ne marche plus de cette façon et ne joue plus ces marches qui sont très martiales .

@brunokirchensittenbach9294 2 жыл бұрын

…Simple answer…Die Bundeswehr are just Nazis with their balls chopped off by American Occupation since 1945…🇩🇪💩🇩🇪💩🇺🇸…Vassals cowards…👊

@flatterfotze8667 2 жыл бұрын

Dito! 🙄😏

@Changnoi12 2 жыл бұрын

West Germany was brought up in the spirit of the victorious powers - East Germany was allowed to maintain traditions.

@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 2 жыл бұрын

@@Changnoi12 fascist traditions

@bugler75 2 жыл бұрын

Je suis d’acc.

@politicstoday8002 8 ай бұрын

Wieso haben wir solche nicht mehr heute :(

@MrCrote92 7 ай бұрын

weil ihr Nazis nie wieder an die Macht kommt.

@avus-kw2f213 6 ай бұрын

@@MrCrote92 WW2 was a NAZI civil war You are not correct

@majoketchu4435 2 ай бұрын

haste doch in Nordkorea zB

@hendricstattmann3638 Жыл бұрын

Retrospectively it might have been a good idea to take the GDR anthem's melody for the reunited Germany, the text coming from the West (FRG). This would have been a nice symbol of bringing together two parts of one nation.

@arfshesaid4325 11 ай бұрын

one of the nicest melodies in that anthem