Newport Papers
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Description
At Midnight on 2 October 1990 the German Democratic Republic (GDR) ceased to exist. The following day the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bundeswehr, took control of the personnel, equipment, and installations of what had been the National People's Army (Nationale Volksarmee or NVA). By any reckoning this was a massive undertaking and one of great historical significance. It was massive because of the sheer amount of equipment, ammunition, and acreage for which the Bundeswehr found itself responsible in the new federal states, and it was historic because soldiers who had faced each other across a deep ideological divide for over thirty years would now be serving together.
Publication Date
1994
Publisher
U.S. Naval War College Press
City
Newport, Rhode Island
Keywords
Newport Papers, Germany, German Army
Recommended Citation
Victorson, Mark E., "Mission in the East: The building of an Army in a Democracy in the new German States" (1994). Newport Papers. 7.
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/usnwc-newport-papers/7
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