Due to NATO standard, most have been simply put in storage pending scrapping, but some vehicles were kept only for local security purposes pending replacement.

Integration of the NVAĪs a side note for what we are concerned for, the Bundeswehr inherited large stockpiles of obsolete/worn-out soviet or locally-built armored vehicles. Economically, East Germany was in shambles, and Bonn saw rapidly the “cost” of the whole “operation” of reunification not in a pleasing way. However, the reunion of 1/3 of the territory and people was just one side of the problem. The wall was erected in 1961, and only the peaceful Revolution 13 October 1989, followed by a final Settlement on 12 September 1990 and reunification 3 October 1990 ended this still very vivid and utterly sensitive part of the German memory and one of the most compelling situations provoked by the iron curtain and the cold war.

BMP-1A1 Ost and BMP-1 in Reunified German ServiceĪ source of immense relief in particular for the Berliners and separated families was the reunification that followed the destruction of the infamous wall and the dissolution of the GDR.

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