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The plans for attacking NATO territory with tactical nuclear weapons were seriously questioned only after Chernobyl. Before that, nobody dared to do so.

From 1960 till 1985 Cold War "gone hot" would have been nuclear right from the start. Warsaw Pact military strategic operational concepts in the Cold War went through four phases until 1991. From "Fulda Gap: Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances": Warsaw Pact Military doctrine as of May 1987 was defensive not only in intent but also in strategic operational implementation. NATO planned to use tactical nuclear weapons when the frontline reached the Rootharr Mountains.

Story goes this way: with pictures: -> http://www.ddr-uniformen.com/?page_id=416

...and above all do not forget the helmets: Minute 5:48: https://archive.org/details/DieDeutscheWochenschauNr.733 Also:

Until the 1960s, there were no major differences between the FRG and the GDR in terms of living conditions. It started to grow in the 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s. There were no real food shortages, but you had to wait 10 (ten!) years for a car. There were shortages of luxury goods such as nylon stockings, which were produced mainly for West Germany to get foreign currency. One had no choice between umpteen different washing powders, but only, say, two or three, etc. The coffee was more bland, chocolate not so sweet. I find Coca-Cola and Pepsi undrinkable, I might as well put 20 sugar cubes in a glass of water. DDR-Cola is better, it's still around today. There were also "Intershops" where you could buy all Western products if you had received Deutsche Marks from relatives in the FRG. And also "Exquisit"- and "Delikat"-shops, where you could buy better GDR stuff for GDR-Mark. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intershop GDR even tried to catch up in IC technology in the 80's. -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombinat_Mikroelektronik_Erfurt

Maybe it has something to do with EW? As intended or as a bug. from Engine Manual 4.0:

Another very good book is "Schlachtfeld Fulda Gap – Schriftenreihe Point Alpha, Band 2", published by Dieter Krüger. But the English language version ("Fulda Gap: Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances" ) is expensive... content (chapters): 1: Fulda Gap: A Flashpoint of the Cold War between Myth and Reality, Helmut H. Hammerich 2: The Eighth Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Fulda Gap, Matthias Uhl 3: The Strategic and Operational Considerations of NATO in Europe since the 1970s, Helge Hansen 4: The Development of the Military Conceptions of the Warsaw Pact in the Last Two Decades of the East–West Conflict, Siegfried Lautsch 5: The Development of NATO Defense Plans for Central Europe in the Final Decades of the Cold War, Gregory W. Pedlow 6: The Defense of Highway 84: Recollections of the Commander, B Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1978–1980, Roger Cirillo 7: The Fulda Gap: A Personal Perspective from Platoon Leader to Army Group, Crosbie E. Saint 8: The GDR and its Mission in the Warsaw Pact, Torsten Diedrich 9: The Wartime Mission of the Border Troops of the GDR, Detlef Rotha 10: Brinkmanship in the Cold War: Theoretical Foundation and Application, Mathias Rupp 11: When the Cold War Almost Turned Hot, Albin F. Irzyk 12: When the World Stood at the Abyss—and No One Knew It, Volker Bausch 13: The Military Relationship of Forces between the North Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact, Michael Poppe 14: The Alliances and the Fulda Gap: A Balance between Ideology, Politics, Strategy, and Operational Plans, Dieter Krüger

It's written by hand, but not real hanwriting. Whoever created this chart took great care to ensure good readability and carefully wrote down each letter separately. Only bottom right corner is handwriting in pencil. And the big red note smeared over it.

I think 1st echelon means 1. Central Front (GSSD/NVA) + South West Front (Soviets/Czechoslovakia) = 42 Divisions on first day After 3-5 days introduction of three additional Fronts (army groups) from Poland, Belorussia as 2nd echolon = 100 Divisions of Warsaw Pact in total on West European Theather of War (1st + 2nd echelon) These 100 Divisions = 5 Tank Armies + 20 common Armies = 35 Tank division + 65 mot.infantry divisions + over 350 launch systems for nuclear missiles with range between 30km and 200km = ca. 1.000.000 soldiers, 26.000 tanks, 30.000 APC, 8.000 guns Airpower = 3 Soviet Air Armies + Air forces of GDR, Poland and Czechoslovakia = ca. 3.000 planes + 500 launch systems for SAMs = about 1.500 fighter aircrafts and 1.000 Bomber and Fighter-Bomber -> more than 100 capable to drop nukes At least this was the Warsaw Pact planning in the 1960's as I understand this.

This is just a stone's throw from the Kaiserdamm Bridge...

BTR-60PB. It's explicitly stated in the video at 16:15 min.

CMCW "West Berlin" Blue Forces: - Berlin Brigade (US) - Berlin Infantry Brigade (UK) - Forces Françaises à Berlin (France) Red Forces: The plans for the "Case Berlin" envisaged mainly GDR forces for the occupation. - NVA (GDR Army) - Grenztruppen (GDR Border Guards) - Kampfgruppen (de facto SED Militia) - Bereitschaftspolizei (Barracks units of the GDR Ministry of the Interior)

Wehrmacht 1946 armed with E-Series, Ruhrstahl X-7 Rotkäppchen ATGMs and M45 Helmets. https://www.modellbau-koenig.de/Fahrzeuge/Militaer-1-72-1-76/Wehrmacht-1946 (but would be more appropriate as a final module for Final Blitzkrieg.

...and they are also not unloaded by Soviets, but by East German NVA.

Also important: Ausgang Tag 1 (2,3 ...) = Outcome or Result Day 1 (2,3...)

The same book also contains a chapter by Siegfried Lautsch who was an Oberst (Colonel) in the NVA and then an Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) in the Bundeswehr. In DDR times he was - Head of the Operative Department of Military District V/5th Army of the NVA (1983-1987), Sub-Department Head for Training in the Ministry of National Defense of the GDR (1987-1990). He writes: NVA 5th Army would have been on the most right flank up in the north on the Baltic coast and 3th Army on the most left flank south of the Thuringian Forest mountains.

From "Fulda Gap - Battlefield of the Cold War Alliances" https://www.lehmanns.de/shop/geisteswissenschaften/41200620-9781498569491-fulda-gap

Nice. 15:40 - 15:55 is American Cold War propaganda at it's best. Fulda Gap an "historical invasion route from the east" lol. Napoleon in 1813 was retreating after defeat at Leipzig. The only ones that where invading at this route where the Americans themself in 1945 in eastern direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulda_Gap

- > https://partisan1943.tumblr.com/archive

Combat Groups of the Working Class (GDR ruling party paramilitary). Post Cold War German-TV docu. The Wehrmacht soldier with MP40 is pretty misplaced in the title picture though.

NVA propaganda for 30th anniversary of GDR (1979)

Thank you very much for answer.