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The Hohenthurm train collision revealed the toxic atmosphere of paranoia that defined East Germany in the Cold War era. Safety concerns were systematically ignored, accountability was absent, and the ...

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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.