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The Ranks of the National People's Army were the military insignia used by the National People's Army, the army of the German Democratic Republic, from 1956 to 1990. Design [ edit ]
Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany. Stanford University Press. 288 pages; An ethnographic study of former East German officers. Herspring, Dale Roy. Requiem for an Army: The Demise of the East German Military, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998, ISBN 978-0847687183, 249 pages; Schönbohm, Jörg (1996).
Army general (German: Armeegeneral), was the highest peacetime general officer rank in the so-called armed organs of the GDR (Bewaffnete Organe der DDR ), that is, the Ministry of National Defence, the Stasi, and the Ministry of the Interior. It is comparable to the four-star rank in many NATO armed forces.
The Land Forces of the National People's Army [2] (German: Landstreitkräfte der Nationalen Volksarmee – LaSK) was the ground-based military branch of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) National People's Army (NPA). The Land Forces Command, located at Geltow, was established on 1 December 1972 as a management body created for the land forces.
The East German Air Force was unique among Warsaw Pact countries in that it was often equipped with the most advanced Soviet fighters, instead of downgraded export models. As an extension of the Soviet 16th Air Army deployed in East Germany, the Luftstreitkräfte was expected to play a front-line role in any war with NATO. As a result, it was ...
World War II German Army ranks and insignia; Military ranks of the Luftwaffe (1935–45) Corps colours of the Luftwaffe (1935–45) Uniforms and insignia of the Kriegsmarine; Japan - army ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II; Japan - naval ranks of the Japanese Empire during World War II; United States Army enlisted rank insignia of ...
Military ranks of East Germany; Military ranks of the German Empire; Military ranks of the Weimar Republic; Rank insignia of the Bundeswehr; Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945) Ranks and insignia of the Luftwaffe (1935–1945) Ranks of the German Bundeswehr
The names of ranks in the army and air force are identical; those of the navy and of medical officers are different. Female soldiers hold the same rank as their male counterparts. A (w) abbreviation is still sometimes added for women, but this is wholly without legal basis – the only additions allowed and maintained in ZDv 14/5 bzw. in the ...