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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 ]
The total number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is estimated at 5.5 to six million people. [5] After the close of the World War II, 24 senior leaders of the Einsatzgruppen were prosecuted in the Einsatzgruppen Trial in 1947–48, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Fourteen death sentences and two life sentences were ...
The government of East Germany controlled a large number of military and paramilitary organisations through various ministries. Chief among these was the Ministry of National Defence. Because of East Germany's proximity to the West during the Cold War (1945–92), its military forces were among the most advanced of the Warsaw Pact. Defining ...
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.
Three Border Troops guards in a watch tower on the Inner German border in 1984. Schießbefehl (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːsbəˌfeːl] ⓘ; German for "order to fire") was the term in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for standing orders authorizing the use of lethal force by the Border Troops to prevent Republikflucht at the Inner German border from 1960 to 1989.
Army rank insignia Specialty insignia (NCOs and enlisted) The Heer as the German army and part of the Wehrmacht inherited its uniforms and rank structure from the Reichsheer of the Weimar Republic (1921–1935). There were few alterations and adjustments made as the army grew from a limited peacetime defense force of 100,000 men to a war ...
Rank comparison chart of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) and enlisted personnel for all armies and land forces of European states. NCO and enlisted ranks
Blücher Order Blücher Orden: 1965-10-13 Awarded for valour in time of war (never awarded). Scharnhorst Order Scharnhorst-Orden: 1966-02-17 Awarded for major contributions to the improvement principles of ideology of the GDR Combat Order of Merit for the People and the Fatherland Kampforden für Verdienste um Volk und Vaterland: 1966-02-17