1989 East German Military Parade | 40 Jahre DDR
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2024
- 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 thank you for buying this dont listen to that guy. i cant afford to support you but thank you anyways. its interesting to watch
@@MaximusandHistory Is there a video of the whole process of the parade for the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin?
@@onjon7043 There is, but some channel already uploaded it!
What was the exact date of this event, and the exact date, if one exists, of the collapse of East Germany?
@@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.
Bin aus der ehemaligen DDR und bin heute stolz darauf früher dabei gewesen sein, im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester.
Da können Sie auch stolz sein, es war eine Armee des Friedens!
Служил в ГДР, в Группе Советских Войск в Германии, прекрасная страна!
Ich bin Stolz das ich in der DDR geboren wurde
Я тоже
💙💛💙💛💙💛
Как можно гордиться что родился в плену????
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, we should praise the politicians that they finally restrained from the war. Unlike current times...
Thank you for sharing this. It really gives younger generations a dose of reality.
Some of the ordinary folk are defending his country today
Da war die DDR mit den Warschauer Pakt noch eine Macht. Was ist jetzt aus den DDR Bürgern geworden,???
Ich bin stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben, der letzten deutschen Armee.
Thank you for the kind comment! What years did you serve?
Ich hab als Feldgendarm von Frühjahr 1984 bis Herbst 1985 gedient.@@MaximusandHistory
Es ist nicht die letzte deutsche Armee, ein Irrtum oder Propaganda.
@@user-nc1io9bd8jGlory to you! ❤
Good for the soldiers that served. But they didn’t know what government they served.
Браво германской народной армии ГДР респект за выправку строевую подготовку и воинские традиции блестящий парад! Светлая память Хонекеру!
:):) the moment war started, 95% of GDR soldiers and officers would immediately switch sides to West Germany/US the moment war started;)
@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.
сдохла гдр
@@letecmigУверены в этом?)
Эко тебя как торкнуло!
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.
You should check my out my other video. Its about the Vietnamese visiting the DDR!
@@MaximusandHistory Thank you for your recommendation. I know Vietnamese life in Gemany because my uncle lives there now.
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
Simson was in Hungsry too. Wartburg auto.
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.
Ach was sind die Truppenfahnen für ein Genuss. Herrliche Parade. Vielen Dank für die Zuverfügungstellung der Aufnahmen.
A mix of Prussian marching traditions, thrown in with a mix of some Soviet Marching traditions.
Correct.
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.
Тешко срање
Auf deinen Mist was du zum besten gibst haben wir gewartet
@@OutnBacker 😢das wusste ich bis jetzt nicht,wie hieß gleich der russische Kaiser,
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
Gorbachev is standing and thinking "I will sell them out now and tomorrow I will gain the right to advertise "Pizza hut". Mega profit.
Наверняка ему уже всё было известно
Он уже продал в тот момент, абсолютно бессовестный черт!
Das war noch eine Armee!
Wenn Sie konnten haben Sie gesoffen. War selbst 3 Jahre dabei.
Wir brauchen keine Armee, einfach keinen Krieg anzetteln reicht.
Wehrmacht ще победи лесно "армията" на DDR...
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.
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!
"It was my first and only visit to East Germany." That's my suggestion: Go there now. 😊
@@sonckebecker8725 Late but he was refering to the country... it fell apart 4 weeks after this parade.
The two drivers maintaining formation in Soviet Chaikas showed great skill. The twin 180 degree turns came off flawlessly.
I was hoping they'd race each other.
Even though they were commies, they’re still Germans…😊
@@glennmartin6492they had to. Otherwise stasi takes care and ends his careers . A Final service to the state
@@pezazul2917 where do you guys come up with this crap?
@@agadez4015 rela man, its a joke. Anyway Who knows?
More germany than the current one
Not really
Genau komme mir in Berlin vor wie ein Dauerurlauber in einem fremden Land
@@Alex-fw8pudie frechen Invasoren im heutigen Berlin würden sich vor den Soldaten der NVA einnässen!
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.
@@Alex-fw8pu Berlinestan.
Bin ebenfalls stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben. Solche brutalen Angriffe auf Deutsche Bürger von Migranten und Flüchtlingen hätte es da nicht gegeben.
Ich habe von 1987 bis 1991 in der DDR-Stadt Magdeburg gedient, T-80-Tanker! Die NVA war eine starke Armee, sie waren die qualifiziertesten Verbündeten, die an gemeinsamen Übungen teilnahmen!
Und was hat eine Armee damit zu tun? Die Sicherheit im Innern ist ja die Sache der Polizei und nicht der Armee. Oder geht die Bundeswehr auf Streife und jagt Kriminelle Ausländer?
Ohne Euch Ossis hätten wir die Migranten gar nicht. Wer hat die denn hereingelassen? Merkel, die Ossi Tante. Also hört auf zu nölen Ihr West Russen.
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.
Ich bin aus der DDR und bin Stolz darauf.
Я служил в Германии,в Дрезден-1978-1980г.г.
Schnifflig und Schneidig... Das Musikkorps iss der Hammer...😍
i can't believe it's already 34 years ago... time flies !
longer than that goddam wall existed
Now brainless idiots in the west want it back.
@Ozi Bits like economic prosperity and individual freedom. Such bad things. You should live in your paradise in North Korea
@Ozi Bits Oh, fuck off, Nazi!
The Wall has already been down longer than it was up.
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.
Prussian Officer Corps still lives!
The ugly soviet style helmets are terrible
@@costatitan8458 they are ww2 era helmets designed by nazi engineers, not soviet
@@raymondlescott6092 I hope so.
@@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.
настоящие немцы. честь и слава.
Communist jew
Были когда то, когда мы их перевоспитали
Σκατα στους Γερμανούς και σε σένα
фашисты всегда остаются фашистами
Wirklich beeindruckend mit welcher Präzision das alles abläuft.
Wenn man das mit dieser amerikanisierten Bundeswehr vergleicht kann man sich vor der NVA nur mit Hochachtung verneigen ,und diese wunderbare Nationalhymne.
"und diese wunderbare Nationalhymne." 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
So wunderbar, dass man den Liedtext nicht sang...
Trotz aller Stalin-Arschkriecherei ("Es wird einstmals ganz Deutschland danken/in jeder Stadt steht Stalins Monument/Dort wird er stehen, wo sich die Reben Ranken/und dort in Kiel erkennt ihn ein Student...." und so ging's strophenlang weiter...) hatte Texter J.R. Becher "Deutschland, einig Vaterland" getextet...nein, so was!!
Einfach nur lächerlich.
Only four weeks later was it over.
I cri everytime
Ja genau , von Politikern verraten!
@@user-pf8xl1pm1u
Eher vom Volk abgeworfen...
Gorbatchev is responsible
@@faouzielmir9894Yeltsin is
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!
I hope that piece of wall is enclosed in glass. Its Full of asbestos
زنده با شوروی سابق
آلمان شرقی آلمان اصیل بود
@@jungleify mine is. I kind of suspect it to be fake though
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.
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."
И это былой немецкой военной мощи. Немцы хотя нас убивали мы их уважали.
Сейчас опять хотят, но это последняя война для немцев будет. Мы приедем.
Bundeswehr didnt use it, because they only have light infantry und Stechschritt is only used by line Infantry
Последний парад ГДР!!! Очень печально.(((
Горбачев всех сдал
Что тут печального ? Две Германии обьединились в одно целое
@@user-gk7qb7xo8lГДР была лучшей Германией из двух.
@@user-tf6nq7xj7q Да ну нах . А ха ха ха , на верное из за хорошей жизни люди валили через стену в ФРГ .
@@user-gk7qb7xo8l в любой популяции есть небольшой % идиотов. Вот они и валили. Ну еще верящие в сказки тоже.
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 .
in west berlin stationed and you was on this parade??? i dont think so
@@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.
You went to a communists parade being an American soldier?
No mames Pinocchio !
@@ernestpaniagua1210 no you was never in east berlin at this time
@@Thargor3000 oh I was you probably weren't even born jr kick rocks
*12:38** holy sheet that turn was neat.*
Die deutsche Armee, die niemals Krieg führen mußte.
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.
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.
The 90 degree turn is called the "Schwenk", its a Prussian tradition!
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
12:00 - 12:40 absolut Perfect.
Wer darf behaupten,das heute noch so hinzubekommen ?
Das war noch eine richtige Show !
Absolute perfection.
It was neat. Wished the modern Bundeswehr had this drip nowadays
The last German military parde.
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.
The last one was in 1945
@@rlm2933 wdym
@@rlm2933
The last East German parade.
Nah
Das Interessanteste sind wie so häufig die Kommentare!
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.
Die einstige deutsche Armee die keinen Krieg verloren hat
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.
How close were you to the parade ground? That's amazing!
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.
It looks like Nicolae Ceaușescu at 10:10.
Little did anyone know what was to be his unenviable fate a few months later.
Thanks for pointing this out.
@dunbustin Also Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Yasir Arafat
A veritable gallery of communist honchos and their friends, 1989
American communists....now just democrats.😡
Es lebe unsere Kameraden vom Heer und der Marine der DDR. Euer Kamerad von der GSVG😢
Здравствуйте! Я так понимаю, вы из бывшего СССР, но пишите на немецком. И мне стало интересно, солдат ГСВГ учили немецкому языку и письму, да?
@@klon_en учил немецкий в школе и техникуме, потом служил в ГДР.
@@klon_enVIVA STALIN 🩸🩸🩸🩸
Es gibt immer ewig gestrige
I genuinely hope the best for your channel. It's important to preserve history
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.
To manipulate history you mean
Wer sind heute die Kriegsverbrecher in Deutschland???
@@nicolenicole2389 u must be one of the woke toxic westerners. YUCK
@@nicolenicole2389 What? How?
What memories. I was in the DDR and Poland in 1988 and you could feel something in the air.
Yeah, total loss of faith in communism.
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.
you could smell socialism it was stale
@@MerleUnchained There never was any faith. Poles never wanted it.
You mean the smell of radioactive from Chernobyl, right?
Irgendwie schade, das es sowas heute nicht mehr in dem Ausmaß gibt
Anstatt dessen gibt es jetzt LGBT und CSD paraden 😢
@@mehmetdereroberer5553 Zieh dir doch ne Uniform an und geh marschieren…
Findest Du das so unterhaltsam ? Da hat schon damals kaum jemand zugeschaut.
Молодцы немцы. Зачётный парад.
Красавцы войска Восточной Германии, ну просто заглядение.
Facade
@@agorazontas5894 Shut up, soy boy!
gay
Prussian tradition.
Thank you for uploading this!
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.
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
Да горбатый, сука, всех сдал - и своих и союзников
Last “true” Prussian parade, as in Germans. The drill survives all over the world, most notably in chile
@@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 😊😊
Wir waren eine Friedenstruppe.
Gorbachev despised Honecker so much at this point. You can see it on his face.
um ok
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
Kein Wunder. Dieser Mensch war sich selbst der Nächste und hat, um sich herum, nichts mehr verstanden.
Горбачева презирают теперь все! В том числе и за предательство Хонакера!
@@DimONTimOFFистория все расставила на свои места! Нет более проклятых людей в наше время, чем Горбачев и Ельцин!
Thank you so much for the upload! Words cannot describe how much i enjoy this clip. Truly amazing!
And there's still more to come!
*This is just, PERFECTION!*
Truly i'm stunned 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
@@MaximusandHistory what brand and model is the limousine the general is Riding?
@@resireg GAZ 13-B "Chaika"
Damals gab es noch Soldaten ohne Bauch. 😂
Herrlich!
Congrats on the new channel 👏 hope it'll grow bigger and better
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video!
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?
ITs too bad that Germany today are not using this type of Prussian military band and these type of soldiers.
@@pauleypavillion6088 The German Army plays many of the same tunes as always, you are confused!
@@williamjackson5942limk?
@@williamjackson5942 Only when it is aproved by the occupiers....
It is a video recording of the live broadcast of the GDR state television at the time!
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.
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.
@@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.
@@olafge It is quite surreal to see so many people who were actually in Berlin around this time watching my RUclips videos. I've had countless American, British and former East German soldiers leave comments on my videos, sharing their experiences all here on RUclips.
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.
Double the Speed of the Film and I am sure you will see it in a different light , hilarious ! 😎
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.
Das waren noch gute zeiten ...
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.
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
@@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.
@@ernestpaniagua1210 Where you in Berlin at the time?
Ganz dunkel
@@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.
Fantastic. The way the band turns left is amazing.
👍👍👍
Муштра туды её в качель но иначе такое не достигается.
It was neat right. You can see the discipline
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Nazis and Prussians did the same...all been passed down to even the goose stepping..
They march very well....
tüylerim diken diken oldu. Prusya almanların hak etmeyeceği kadar güzel bir kültür
Die Deutschen waren schon immer sehr intelligente, fortschrittliche und disziplinierte Menschen. Ich bewundere dich sehr, Respekt aus Kanada.
Das stimmt...ist aber jetzt nicht mehr so..Dank unbegrenzter Einwanderung und TikTok
Cause in Alberta they short a little this and a little o that.
Yeah,wonderful cosy types with it!
@@paulsmith3487 Paul, they have co-opted your comment. Goose steppers can’t handle the truth. Failed orcs in a failed orc world.
@@Jhossack the truth is that muricans are no1 jewdogs and epstein and chilloving friends want global childlover trade.
This is the last ever German marching parade 😢
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)
This was the last DDR parade, and that is good. There is one Germany, and thanks God it is not communist.
Last parade under Soviet tyrants. They managed to set East Germany 30 years behind West Germany. Russians never brought good to anyone
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 🤣
@@alexanderv4609 Das ist gut?
Leck mich du oooaaarrrsssccch
Erst Sommer 89 zum Raketenschießen, danach zur Parade 40. Jahrestag. Zwei Monate später wurde ich entlassen. Das war meine NVA Zeit.
You took part in this parade?
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! 🤗🏹🇫🇮
Piękna dopracowana w szczegòłach defilada.
Brawo.👏👏👍
Gledam uniforme, kacige i oružje... Dvije godine kasnije, nešto od toga je stiglo u Hrvatsku, kada smo imali vrlo malo toga za obranu od srpske agresije. U pravi čas! Bravo Njemačka i hvala.
That's interesting, I didn't know the Croatians used East German military gear during the Yugoslav wars!
@@MaximusandHistory Moja postrojba je krajem 1991. imala opremu koju je koristila vojska DDR-a. Uniforme i kalašnjikove i minibacače. Nismo baš voljeli one zimske uniforme s uzorkom na nekakve male crtice-zbog estetike. Ali bile su udobne i korisne. U to vrijeme je bio međunarodni embargo na uvoz oružja. Sve se plaćalo gotovinom i nitko ne zna kojim kanalima je to stizalo k nama. Iz Nemaćke ex. DDR-a, Mađarske, Rumunjske, Ukrajine (npr. avioni MIG-21), Argentine, Bugarske, Južnoafričke Republike... Zanimljivo, vjerojatno je najviše oružja kupljeno u Rusiji (npr.Mi-24 i S-300 itd.), koja je bila i ostala saveznik Srbije. Tada je skoro 45% GDP-a trošeno za ratne potrebe, ali i hrvatska dijaspora je poslala mnogo milijardi dolara za obranu.
Od prilike, u početku 20% oružja i opreme je bilo iz DDR-a: puške, streljivo, uniforme, kacige, minobacači, protuoklopna sredstva...itd., ali nije bilo vozila i slično. Za artiljeriju mi nije poznato. Možda.
@@MaximusandHistory dostali je od Bundeswehry, która musiała się pozbyć sprzętu po NVA
hermosa parada militar de alemania y seguir la tendencia prusiana, saludos desde chile
Chile proudly continues Prussian military tradition! Thank you for the kind comment!
Pero esa es Alemania Oriental, no tiene relación con la doctrina prusiana de Chile 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ que es de la Alemania Prusiana
Es Alemania del Este, son más soviéticos que nada
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.
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!
The marching band is awesome 👌
Thanks for upload
You're welcome! :)
Я маршировал на этом"Плаце".
Фюрстенвальде на Шпрее.88.
The most recent time in world history where you can see Germans goosestepping
half assed ya
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@@MaximusandHistory
Это правда что в нынешней ФРГ люди из ГДР считаются людьми второго сорта ?
Wenn ich heute unsere Handseln sehe wird mir ganz schlecht !!! 😫😫😫
Con alta probabilidad el mejor ejército en su época. Gran disciplina y compromiso. Nunca necesitó probar su valía.
THIS IS GREAT HD VERSION BUT WHY THE BIG WATERMARK AT THE BOTTOM?
В ГДР, в ННА ГДР сохранился настоящий прусский воинский дух и армейские традиции.
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.
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....
@@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.
@@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
@@user-jn3cg7jt9t Utter nonsense.
Мы живём с вами во времена,когда прошлое становится реальностью с такой скоростью, что хочется себя ущипнуть, чтобы понять ☕☕уж не кошмар ли это.
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.
В обществе, где постоянно не хватало элементарной туалетной бумаги, а все деньги тратились на содержание армии? 🤣🤡
My dad from Bulgaria lived in DDR, in East Berlin 1986-1988
Just amazing! Great quality! Thanks.
Ehrenvoll gedient bis zum letzten Tag der Zeit des Wehrdienstes
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Wieso haben wir solche nicht mehr heute :(
weil ihr Nazis nie wieder an die Macht kommt.
@@MrCrote92 WW2 was a NAZI civil war
You are not correct
haste doch in Nordkorea zB
Not truly in a German fashion but still quite impressive! Especially the hand movements of the drummers at 12:18
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
Germany needs to bring these military traditions and identity back. they are pure German and very cool.
Uhh... Yeah we kind of don't have a good history surrounding those traditions and military identity. Yes i agree, it is cool. But you need to get with the times, we are no longer a nation that has to display our army like this. Nothing good will come from that and everyone will think the same thing if they see Germany doing this.
@@finnsimons1705 Who cares honestly? "Keeping up with the modern times" is how unique traditions are lost. These things have been in place way before the former Austrian painter came to power. And of course in the modern west, many people will see any sort of patriotism or tradition as extremism which is unfortunately sad.
@@nicholasjeremyson Ironically, many old marches from before the 2nd world War are in active use by the Bundeswehr and the Heer uniform looks fairly german, but it isn't muh new Wehrmacht uniform (so much German!!! 1111!!1!),so it's frowned upon by people like you
@@finnsimons1705 Germany is a weak nation now. Afraid to call out the united states for attacking Nordsteam. Shame on Germany’s weakness
That will never happen with the current "government". Above all, the party "The Greens" have a deep aversion to their own people and would rather abolish Germany today than tomorrow!
Я испытываю искреннее чувство вины перед народом ГДР, который мы предали! Так же как и народ Кубы.
Но в самую первую очередь мы предали сами себя, продав свою Родину за блестящую декорацию капиталистического "Рая".
Gorbatschow hat die DDR und die Menschen der DDR verraten und verkauft. Vor allem die Armee Polizei und Funktionsträger. Und die normale Bevölkerung. Der Westen ist aufgetreten wie ein kolonislherr in der Kolonie. Oder wie der Sieger nach einem Krieg. Die Menschen der DDR haben den Krieg 2 mal verloren.
Jedes mal zu Tränen gerührt...vor allem das Musikkorps...in der preußischen Tradition vom Kaiserreich, Wachbattallion Berlin in der Weimarer Republik und Wehrmacht...und bei dem "Kampflieder Potpourri" kann jeder mitsingen (entweder Text von 89 oder Text aus den 30er Jahren) Dieser Clip wird noch gezeigt, wenn niemand wer weiss was die "Bundeswehr" gewesen war
This looks and marches like a proper German Army that has retained its Prussian tradition.
Yeah. It’s kinda scary.
No it doesn't. There is no "Stechschritt" for a start.
Reminds me of the marches during Hitler’s reign of terror.
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
Always beware of self confidence
Gorbachev probably did.
I don't know. Everyone participating looks miserable.
Something never changes.
Thanks for uploading this. American, and a history buff, and part German as well.
Я был на последней демонстрации и параде 1-го мая 1989 года в Берлине. С теплотой вспоминаю ГДР, те времена и тех людей!
штази тоже с теплотой вспоминаете?)
@@smart4986 да недосмотрел штази такого лгбтешника как ты
@@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 😆
@@smart4986todays agencies (or western in general) are much worse
@@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)
My grandfather served in GDR in 80s - he had best memories about the country and its military force. GDR force was one of the most disciplined and loyal among the Eastern Bloc.
There wasn't much food. In fact people were starving, but at least the military were fed!
@@jameshart678 if you wont feed ur military somebody else will feed them. and now a vassal to USA)
@@jameshart678 not true at all.
@@jameshart678 😂😂
@@jameshart678 nobody had to starve in the gdr, unlike in the usa or other nations of glorious west and eastblock states.
we didn't have everything but we didn't know hunger.
Самая сильная армия в восточной европе! Слава ГДР!
This is how we felt when watching the last military parade of Rhodesia. Except that was a good country
12:00 There is not and there will never again be anyone in the world who wields sticks like those front row drummers.
This is what a military parade should look like.
I agree, and the military musicians were outstanding! A good military parade always is accompanied by a professional sounding military band.
nah, the one int he late 90s in germany is way better. Straight up prussian shit there.
Мы не были врагами...
Und sind es auch jetzt nicht. Wir sollen es nur denken. Wie früher. Der Mensch ist und bleibt ein Arschloch.
Ich bin stolz ein ddr
Kind zu sein diese haben uns noch leben lassen diese Bundesregierung vernichtet und meine Lebensqualität l
Wer hätte es damals gedacht, aber die Welt war sicherer als heute!
Mein Arsch, wie mann in Frankreich sagt 😏
So true, the world was safer and also social rights and workers' struggles advanced greatly thanks to the existence of the socialist camp, of which the DDR was a glorious part. Having the wrong ones won in 1989, not only you in the East, but we in the West too lived and are still living a tragedy and unstopped regression...
@@hanbyol19dem kann ich nur zustimmen
Because you had a serious army.
Nein, sie erschien nur leichter in gut und böse trennbar. Darüber bestand komplementäre Einigkeit.
А было о чем поговорить Хенекеру и Горбачёву. Настроение неуверенное. Последний год стены.
Excelente desfile. Sin palabras