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No major combat incidents occurred in the GDR, but the S-200 system’s presence deterred potential aggressors, aligning with Warsaw Pact exercises and Soviet oversight.
Protesters blocked the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv this morning as part of a nationwide day of action. Israel has also been ...
East Germany innovated with mine-clearing prototypes, too. The T-54 M1975/1 and the M1975/2 were equipped with rollers and flails, and bridgelayers like the BLG-60 series based on a T-55’s chassis.
Six outstanding contributors to Mountaineer athletics make up the 35th class of honorees in the West Virginia University ...
The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature.
Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there’s still an imbalance between eastern and western Germany. Many executive positions in the former East are still held by people from the ...
Do all intelligence agents live like James Bond? Not those who worked for East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Stasi). A new book reveals the mundane lives of the agents.
A translator remembers babies kept in pizza boxes at a refugee camp in Serbia. Ten years after Europe’s refugee influx, ...
Visa application for Germany just got more convenient across the Middle East, as VFS Global has renewed its long-standing contract with the German Federal Foreign Office for another seven years.