Absolutely! Even British musician David Bowie visited the Neue Wache!

Where there's goose steps, there's no democracy. I live in Brazil. @@MaximusandHistory

@@daltonagre That's just simply not true! In NATO countries like Sweden and Bulgaria they still use the German goose step!

for the huge tourism

Huge tourism meant tourist spending western currency. When I went to the GDR you had to pay a small fee to cross the border. You could pay with any currency except for the East German Mark @@keinkein510

Thank you for the kind comment! I hope you enjoyed the video!

Thank you for your kind words! I definitely want to start producing more narrated history videos, similar to Mark Felton's content.

@@MaximusandHistory You're welcome! I'm really looking forward to that! :)

...träum weiter kleiner Konsomolz...von ein paar Äußerlichkeiten abgesehen war an der NVA absolut nichts "deutsch": die ganze organisatorische Struktur, der Aufbau und das innere Gefüge, die Befehlsstrukturen etc. waren 100% sowjetisch. Und z.B. die NVA-Luftwaffe war organischer Teil der Luftstreitkräfte der Westgruppe der Sowjetischen Steitkräfte und unterstand schon in Friedenszeiten ausschließlich sowjetischem Befehl....

Agreed. I think they had their own NVA präsentiermarsch. Though, NVA central band had some prussian marches in their repertoire, like Koeniggraetzermarsch

Yes, unfortunately the repertoire of the NVA was very limited and strict, and mostly consisted of newer compositions!

Later on they did. Preussens Gloria, for example.

they were anti prussian but marching with goose steps in wehrmacht unifor, helmetand saber. with prussian marches it would be even more disgusting for a "socialistic" state and army.

@@keinkein510 say that to the red army, they inherited white army tradition, ranks, marching drill altogether in 1944.

That is complete bullshit

Absolutely! Even the uniforms worn by the Bundeswehr and the NVA are based on the Wehrmacht tunics, which in turn were directly carried over from the Reichswehr. In reality, the Nazis barely invented anything new apart from the SA/SS Uniforms.

I hope you enjoyed the video!

in german its called Stechschritt, which is exact what it is

...the Neue Wache is still the offical German war memorial for the victims of the 1. and 2. WW and the victims of dictatorship. At special holidays and when state visitors come there to show their respect, military ceremonies are held with the Wachbatallion der Bundeswehr (Guards batallion of the German armed forces)....

@@heimdalshorn Thanks. I just realized I was confusing the memorial with the change of guards ceremony (Neue Wache literally means New Guard, if I understand it correctly).

it looked more wehrmacht and nazi, less german, this tradition ist dead and burried.

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Yes

That's awesome! I look forward to hopefully visiting sometime in the future!

Absolutely! I plan on making a video in the future where I cover the entire history of the Neue Wache!

@@MaximusandHistory good good

Found it, it is Parademarsch der NVA Nr. 1

they played it sometimes about an hour, always the same on and on @@petershen6924

You didn't post anything. If you did, it might have been automatically shadow banned by KZfaq's comment system for what ever reason. I have had my comments disappear before too! What exactly did you write down?

I just added a few historical comparisons and differences between the Prussian manual of arms and what the DDR did, and what the Bundeswehr Wach Bataillon is doing now. Perhaps that's what happened, although I have no clue as to why You Tube would do that. Oh well.....

The march at 1:03 is Russian and the march at 2:38 is East German ("Parademarsch der NVA Nr. 1")

I took it down because it was attracting some extremists who were posting not the best of comments.

@MaximusandHistory Ah makes sense. Sucks that people like that are around. Im a WW2 German reenactor and enjoy history!

its not the same

Sorry, but this is not true. This goose step is Prussian and not "Soviet" as you claim. I have the original NVA drill manual from 1957 in my possession. The manual is an updated version of the 1906 Prussian drill manual with only some Soviet elements. The goose step is directly based on the Prussian model. First and foremost, in Russian, we officially call the goose step "Строевой шаг" (Lit. "Drill Step") and it was directly borrowed from Prussia. However, it is only used for training and drill exercises, and was never used on parade! The only other exception for using this step is when a military unit carries out the regimental banner during a ceremony, that's it. The formal marching step of the Soviet and later Russian Army is called "Походный шаг" (Lit. Marching Step). The "Marching Step" is the one you see on Russian military parades, and it's not considered goose stepping because the height of the step is too low to be classified as such. (It's less than 15cm off the ground). Lastly, the Russian Drill Step is much slower than the German one. The NVA continued to use the Prussian tempo of 114 steps per minute, while Russian drill regulations establish the Drill Step (Goose Step) at 75 steps per minute, which is significantly slower than the one used by the NVA.

@@MaximusandHistory ...sorry, you are wrong. The original Prussian "goose step" (aka "Stechschritt") is not in the way as practised by the NVA. It was more like the aktuell Russian style parade step. The goose step of the 5 changing guards in your video is exately the Soviet/Russian Drill step-model (to an almost 90 degree angel), there was nothing similar in any German military before. The Prussians did not lift the leg as far as the NVA did. I have seen the NVA parading many times, also "life", and I know the manuals as well and I know tons of historical photos and historical films showing Prussians on parade and at ceremonies. The parade step (not the "drill step" - this was Soviet-style) of the NVA was in the same tempo as the Prussians, but with much higher legs. If you want to make a comparison, then the NVA parade step is more "Wehrmacht-Style" then "Prussian-Style" - and yes, there is a significant difference.....

@@heimdalshorn The cognitive dissonance is kicking in! :D Also, why do you keep liking your own comment? LOL. Again, this is not true! You have no idea what you're talking about. The 90 degree angle goose step is unofficially "stechschritt" and was used by the Wehrmacht! If you open the drill regulations of the Wehrmacht, the Stechschritt is actually called the "Parademarsch" and is executed at a 90 degree angle! There are two different types of goose step: Paradeschritt / Exerziermarsch (Parade Step) = 45 degree angle Stechschritt / Parademarsch (Piercing Step) = 90 degree angle The Stechschritt / Parademarsch is only used at the changing of the guard, which is correctly done by the NVA! Look here: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-IFhP1kEHnpI/UmrXgo07OCI/AAAAAAAAALw/8I1YWAnLc2c/s1600/tumblr_m637wxSJip1rxux3lo1_1280.jpg

​@@MaximusandHistoryStechschritt was never used by the Prussians and you put a link to the photo of Wermacht (Luftwaffe) which butchered Prussian tradition. Bundeswehr still continues the tradition with small changes so that it doesn't hurt the soldiers like slowing down the drill. The traditions that Bundeswehr has is Prussian just like Reichsheer. NVA doesn't have Prussian tradition it is mostly Russian like the hand swinging and the diffrence between the Russian and the NVA changing of the guard is small.

nope

I'd say any leg joint!

I am sorry, I don't quite understand the question.

@MaximusandHistory Where did the WWI burial go after it was replaced with the post war monument?

@@luxann292 Thank you for your response. There was never any buried remains inside the Neue Wache for WWI. Instead, the interior housed a granite block with a laurel wreath on top of it. It was not until 1969, when the East German leadership built a new monument inside the Neue Wache which contained the remains of an unknown soldier and a unknown concentration camp victim.

Российский строевой шаг почётного караула больше похож на цирк, а не на что-то уместное в мемориальных целях.

@@wolfmonk9d Вы правы, караул с разводящим на главной площади страны, под звон курантов идущие к мавзолею, печатая шаг по гранитным плитам- выглядит монументально. А не возня в Александровском саду.

The Neue Wache was turned into a War Memorial in 1931 to honor of the victims of WW1. This was well over 2 years before the Nazis took power, so it has nothing to do with the Fascism!

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