1989 East German Military Parade | 40 Jahre DDR

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  • 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
    @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +131

    *If you like my content, come join my Discord Community:* discord.gg/ZPc2pK25ET

    • @nietzchepreacher9477
      @nietzchepreacher9477 Před rokem +3

      @@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

    • @onjon7043
      @onjon7043 Před rokem +2

      @@MaximusandHistory Is there a video of the whole process of the parade for the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin?

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +3

      @@onjon7043 There is, but some channel already uploaded it!

    • @donreed
      @donreed Před rokem +3

      What was the exact date of this event, and the exact date, if one exists, of the collapse of East Germany?

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +9

      @@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.

  • @odilachilov937
    @odilachilov937 Před měsícem +42

    Служил в ГДР, в Группе Советских Войск в Германии, прекрасная страна!

  • @user-nc1io9bd8j
    @user-nc1io9bd8j Před 7 měsíci +609

    Ich bin stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben, der letzten deutschen Armee.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 7 měsíci +30

      Thank you for the kind comment! What years did you serve?

    • @user-nc1io9bd8j
      @user-nc1io9bd8j Před 7 měsíci +68

      Ich hab als Feldgendarm von Frühjahr 1984 bis Herbst 1985 gedient.@@MaximusandHistory

    • @horstbluesman54
      @horstbluesman54 Před 6 měsíci

      Es ist nicht die letzte deutsche Armee, ein Irrtum oder Propaganda.

    • @ha61871
      @ha61871 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@user-nc1io9bd8jGlory to you! ❤

    • @dromo76
      @dromo76 Před 6 měsíci +16

      Good for the soldiers that served. But they didn’t know what government they served.

  • @stuff38
    @stuff38 Před 8 měsíci +46

    Ach was sind die Truppenfahnen für ein Genuss. Herrliche Parade. Vielen Dank für die Zuverfügungstellung der Aufnahmen.

    • @ricardodutra9862
      @ricardodutra9862 Před dnem

      Comunismo não representou nada, ao mundo, apenas 100 milhões de mortos.

  • @majestikagler3027
    @majestikagler3027 Před 3 měsíci +78

    Браво германской народной армии ГДР респект за выправку строевую подготовку и воинские традиции блестящий парад! Светлая память Хонекеру!

    • @letecmig
      @letecmig Před 2 měsíci

      :):) the moment war started, 95% of GDR soldiers and officers would immediately switch sides to West Germany/US the moment war started;)

    • @pooq6611
      @pooq6611 Před 2 měsíci +6

      @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.

    • @user-xh2we7lu4p
      @user-xh2we7lu4p Před měsícem +2

      сдохла гдр

    • @redrickschuchart6425
      @redrickschuchart6425 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@letecmigУверены в этом?)

    • @user-bz7wp3mr8z
      @user-bz7wp3mr8z Před 25 dny

      Эко тебя как торкнуло!

  • @AnonAnonAnon
    @AnonAnonAnon Před rokem +736

    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.

    • @solideshalbwissen
      @solideshalbwissen Před rokem +23

      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.

    • @Anuclano
      @Anuclano Před rokem +32

      Well, we should praise the politicians that they finally restrained from the war. Unlike current times...

    • @charlesaferg
      @charlesaferg Před rokem +20

      Thank you for sharing this. It really gives younger generations a dose of reality.

    • @mshkotnyar
      @mshkotnyar Před rokem +7

      Some of the ordinary folk are defending his country today

    • @dieterwolfgangkohler
      @dieterwolfgangkohler Před rokem

      Da war die DDR mit den Warschauer Pakt noch eine Macht. Was ist jetzt aus den DDR Bürgern geworden,???

  • @Mark-yy2py
    @Mark-yy2py Před rokem +337

    A mix of Prussian marching traditions, thrown in with a mix of some Soviet Marching traditions.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +40

      Correct.

    • @OutnBacker
      @OutnBacker Před rokem +40

      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.

    • @vlabruic
      @vlabruic Před rokem

      Тешко срање

    • @thomdin
      @thomdin Před rokem +1

      Auf deinen Mist was du zum besten gibst haben wir gewartet

    • @thomdin
      @thomdin Před rokem

      ​@@OutnBacker 😢das wusste ich bis jetzt nicht,wie hieß gleich der russische Kaiser,

  • @ducthuan.tran.
    @ducthuan.tran. Před 10 měsíci +139

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 10 měsíci +10

      You should check my out my other video. Its about the Vietnamese visiting the DDR!

    • @ducthuan.tran.
      @ducthuan.tran. Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@MaximusandHistory Thank you for your recommendation. I know Vietnamese life in Gemany because my uncle lives there now.

    • @kosmosfaber6534
      @kosmosfaber6534 Před 4 měsíci

      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

    • @LEK-we2hh
      @LEK-we2hh Před 3 měsíci +2

      Simson was in Hungsry too. Wartburg auto.

    • @LowSkillSurvival
      @LowSkillSurvival Před 2 měsíci +12

      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.

  • @port-artyr
    @port-artyr Před měsícem +14

    Я служил в Германии,в Дрезден-1978-1980г.г.

  • @marclandreville6367
    @marclandreville6367 Před rokem +136

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +20

      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!

    • @sonckebecker8725
      @sonckebecker8725 Před rokem +5

      "It was my first and only visit to East Germany." That's my suggestion: Go there now. 😊

    • @Chronoxile
      @Chronoxile Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@sonckebecker8725 Late but he was refering to the country... it fell apart 4 weeks after this parade.

  • @givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

    The two drivers maintaining formation in Soviet Chaikas showed great skill. The twin 180 degree turns came off flawlessly.

    • @glennmartin6492
      @glennmartin6492 Před rokem +10

      I was hoping they'd race each other.

    • @JPoulAndersson
      @JPoulAndersson Před rokem

      Even though they were commies, they’re still Germans…😊

    • @pezazul2917
      @pezazul2917 Před rokem +12

      @@glennmartin6492they had to. Otherwise stasi takes care and ends his careers . A Final service to the state

    • @agadez4015
      @agadez4015 Před rokem +27

      @@pezazul2917 where do you guys come up with this crap?

    • @pezazul2917
      @pezazul2917 Před rokem +5

      @@agadez4015 rela man, its a joke. Anyway Who knows?

  • @ingeburgazami7474
    @ingeburgazami7474 Před 2 měsíci +45

    Ich bin aus der DDR und bin Stolz darauf.

  • @marionryschka743
    @marionryschka743 Před 2 měsíci +21

    Bin aus der ehemaligen DDR und bin heute stolz darauf früher dabei gewesen sein, im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester.

    • @karlaheidel8648
      @karlaheidel8648 Před 8 dny

      Da können Sie auch stolz sein, es war eine Armee des Friedens!

    • @frankgorek3693
      @frankgorek3693 Před 6 dny

      ​@@karlaheidel8648das war die Bundeswehr auch

    • @svend.7324
      @svend.7324 Před dnem

      "...im Pionier und Jugendblasorchester."
      ...bemerkenswert...

  • @waffle_burger8499
    @waffle_burger8499 Před rokem +76

    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.

  • @salchaw
    @salchaw Před rokem +136

    i can't believe it's already 34 years ago... time flies !

    • @walterweiss7124
      @walterweiss7124 Před rokem +12

      longer than that goddam wall existed

    • @marcoshac9337
      @marcoshac9337 Před rokem

      Now brainless idiots in the west want it back.

    • @marcoshac9337
      @marcoshac9337 Před rokem

      @Ozi Bits like economic prosperity and individual freedom. Such bad things. You should live in your paradise in North Korea

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Před rokem

      @Ozi Bits Oh, fuck off, Nazi!

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Před rokem

      The Wall has already been down longer than it was up.

  • @agungprasetyo2665
    @agungprasetyo2665 Před 8 měsíci +155

    More germany than the current one

    • @Kalashnikov413
      @Kalashnikov413 Před 8 měsíci +7

      Not really

    • @Alex-fw8pu
      @Alex-fw8pu Před měsícem +9

      Genau komme mir in Berlin vor wie ein Dauerurlauber in einem fremden Land

    • @badschbenza8126
      @badschbenza8126 Před měsícem

      ​@@Alex-fw8pudie frechen Invasoren im heutigen Berlin würden sich vor den Soldaten der NVA einnässen!

    • @thomasborger1783
      @thomasborger1783 Před měsícem

      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.

    • @dieterdodel835
      @dieterdodel835 Před 14 dny

      @@Alex-fw8pu Berlinestan.

  • @holly0311
    @holly0311 Před 2 měsíci +12

    Schnifflig und Schneidig... Das Musikkorps iss der Hammer...😍

  • @user-oe3mb1gr8c
    @user-oe3mb1gr8c Před 2 lety +1036

    The last German military parde.

    • @Changnoi12
      @Changnoi12 Před 2 lety +60

      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.

    • @rlm2933
      @rlm2933 Před 2 lety +108

      The last one was in 1945

    • @foxrotneinnein1968
      @foxrotneinnein1968 Před 2 lety +3

      @@rlm2933 wdym

    • @jimjimsandbern9382
      @jimjimsandbern9382 Před 2 lety +58

      @@rlm2933
      The last East German parade.

    • @Mr.DalekLK
      @Mr.DalekLK Před 2 lety +6

      Nah

  • @MyManicmonday
    @MyManicmonday Před 2 lety +163

    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.

    • @raymondlescott6092
      @raymondlescott6092 Před rokem +8

      Prussian Officer Corps still lives!

    • @costatitan8458
      @costatitan8458 Před rokem +8

      The ugly soviet style helmets are terrible

    • @manicmangomango8118
      @manicmangomango8118 Před rokem +44

      ​@@costatitan8458 they are ww2 era helmets designed by nazi engineers, not soviet

    • @dmitrypavlov872
      @dmitrypavlov872 Před rokem

      ​@@raymondlescott6092 I hope so.

    • @farmalmta
      @farmalmta Před rokem +2

      @@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.

  • @binaway
    @binaway Před 10 měsíci +160

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 8 měsíci +29

      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."

    • @user-qk5tc9qm4j
      @user-qk5tc9qm4j Před 6 měsíci +4

      И это былой немецкой военной мощи. Немцы хотя нас убивали мы их уважали.

    • @user-qk5tc9qm4j
      @user-qk5tc9qm4j Před 6 měsíci

      Сейчас опять хотят, но это последняя война для немцев будет. Мы приедем.

    • @gunslinger0963
      @gunslinger0963 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Bundeswehr didnt use it, because they only have light infantry und Stechschritt is only used by line Infantry

    • @85Prix
      @85Prix Před 2 dny

      ​@@user-qk5tc9qm4jуже приехали, конечная😂😂😂

  • @thomasliesch412
    @thomasliesch412 Před 3 měsíci +29

    Das war noch eine Armee!

    • @thomashoegg9481
      @thomashoegg9481 Před 2 měsíci

      Wenn Sie konnten haben Sie gesoffen. War selbst 3 Jahre dabei.

    • @user-ny2ke1qu1b
      @user-ny2ke1qu1b Před 2 měsíci

      Wir brauchen keine Armee, einfach keinen Krieg anzetteln reicht.

    • @pavelpavlov8556
      @pavelpavlov8556 Před 11 dny

      Wehrmacht ще победи лесно "армията" на DDR...

  • @georgbuchner7153
    @georgbuchner7153 Před rokem +140

    Only four weeks later was it over.

  • @opathe2nd973
    @opathe2nd973 Před rokem +181

    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!

    • @jungleify
      @jungleify Před 8 měsíci +3

      I hope that piece of wall is enclosed in glass. Its Full of asbestos

    • @parhamkhalaj-eu2pj
      @parhamkhalaj-eu2pj Před 8 měsíci +1

      زنده با شوروی سابق

    • @parhamkhalaj-eu2pj
      @parhamkhalaj-eu2pj Před 8 měsíci +3

      آلمان شرقی آلمان اصیل بود

    • @fuuz642
      @fuuz642 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@jungleify mine is. I kind of suspect it to be fake though

  • @user-wh9qz3eo9s
    @user-wh9qz3eo9s Před rokem +44

    Последний парад ГДР!!! Очень печально.(((

    • @alexanderk7671
      @alexanderk7671 Před 10 měsíci +13

      Горбачев всех сдал

    • @user-gk7qb7xo8l
      @user-gk7qb7xo8l Před 27 dny

      Что тут печального ? Две Германии обьединились в одно целое

    • @user-tf6nq7xj7q
      @user-tf6nq7xj7q Před 27 dny +2

      ​@@user-gk7qb7xo8lГДР была лучшей Германией из двух.

    • @user-gk7qb7xo8l
      @user-gk7qb7xo8l Před 27 dny

      @@user-tf6nq7xj7q Да ну нах . А ха ха ха , на верное из за хорошей жизни люди валили через стену в ФРГ .

    • @user-tf6nq7xj7q
      @user-tf6nq7xj7q Před 27 dny

      @@user-gk7qb7xo8l в любой популяции есть небольшой % идиотов. Вот они и валили. Ну еще верящие в сказки тоже.

  • @user-pn4yv8sy9c
    @user-pn4yv8sy9c Před rokem +94

    настоящие немцы. честь и слава.

    • @rainerklessinger8843
      @rainerklessinger8843 Před 10 měsíci

      Communist jew

    • @user-il3rw6hq4w
      @user-il3rw6hq4w Před 4 měsíci +1

      Были когда то, когда мы их перевоспитали

    • @michopoulosal
      @michopoulosal Před 4 měsíci

      Σκατα στους Γερμανούς και σε σένα

    • @user-dp8rk2cu9s
      @user-dp8rk2cu9s Před měsícem

      фашисты всегда остаются фашистами

  • @PineappleOnPizza69
    @PineappleOnPizza69 Před rokem +179

    *12:38** holy sheet that turn was neat.*

  • @ernestpaniagua1210
    @ernestpaniagua1210 Před 2 lety +153

    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 .

    • @Thargor3000
      @Thargor3000 Před rokem +8

      in west berlin stationed and you was on this parade??? i dont think so

    • @ernestpaniagua1210
      @ernestpaniagua1210 Před rokem +24

      @@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.

    • @felipeangeles4194
      @felipeangeles4194 Před rokem

      You went to a communists parade being an American soldier?
      No mames Pinocchio !

    • @Thargor3000
      @Thargor3000 Před rokem +3

      @@ernestpaniagua1210 no you was never in east berlin at this time

    • @ernestpaniagua1210
      @ernestpaniagua1210 Před rokem

      @@Thargor3000 oh I was you probably weren't even born jr kick rocks

  • @conyfalko5049
    @conyfalko5049 Před měsícem +14

    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

    • @Viktor_SU
      @Viktor_SU Před 6 dny +1

      А сейчас, друг мой, мы еще ближе к ней, чем тогда!!

    • @85Prix
      @85Prix Před 2 dny

      ​@@Viktor_SU😂 да неужели???

  • @klim-dim682
    @klim-dim682 Před 3 měsíci +39

    Gorbachev is standing and thinking "I will sell them out now and tomorrow I will gain the right to advertise "Pizza hut". Mega profit.

    • @aexgorov9619
      @aexgorov9619 Před 2 měsíci +8

      Наверняка ему уже всё было известно

    • @odilachilov937
      @odilachilov937 Před měsícem +5

      Он уже продал в тот момент, абсолютно бессовестный черт!

  • @billygoodmeme7635
    @billygoodmeme7635 Před 2 lety +390

    I genuinely hope the best for your channel. It's important to preserve history

    • @hoppinggnomethe4154
      @hoppinggnomethe4154 Před rokem +5

      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.

    • @nicolenicole2389
      @nicolenicole2389 Před rokem +2

      To manipulate history you mean

    • @dieterwolfgangkohler
      @dieterwolfgangkohler Před rokem

      Wer sind heute die Kriegsverbrecher in Deutschland???

    • @MrNajibrazak
      @MrNajibrazak Před rokem

      @@nicolenicole2389 u must be one of the woke toxic westerners. YUCK

    • @guisousa7139
      @guisousa7139 Před rokem +2

      @@nicolenicole2389 What? How?

  • @peterschmidt5790
    @peterschmidt5790 Před 2 lety +49

    12:00 - 12:40 absolut Perfect.

    • @alexxd500
      @alexxd500 Před 2 lety +5

      Wer darf behaupten,das heute noch so hinzubekommen ?
      Das war noch eine richtige Show !

    • @garypulliam3740
      @garypulliam3740 Před 2 lety +7

      Absolute perfection.

    • @PineappleOnPizza69
      @PineappleOnPizza69 Před rokem +4

      It was neat. Wished the modern Bundeswehr had this drip nowadays

  • @user-kj2su9tp3c
    @user-kj2su9tp3c Před 10 měsíci +38

    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.

    • @wernerdaedalus9463
      @wernerdaedalus9463 Před 2 měsíci +5

      "und diese wunderbare Nationalhymne." 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

    • @notroll1279
      @notroll1279 Před měsícem

      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.

    • @svend.7324
      @svend.7324 Před dnem +2

      Ja. Tatsache.
      ...vor allem, wenn man auf sowas steht und vergisst, was mit denen war, die da nicht so den Bock drauf hatten...

  • @thomastheile713
    @thomastheile713 Před 2 měsíci +64

    Ich bin Stolz das ich in der DDR geboren wurde

    • @makszverev4556
      @makszverev4556 Před měsícem +4

      Я тоже

    • @newstar1835
      @newstar1835 Před 26 dny +1

      💙💛💙💛💙💛

    • @user-ss6hl5wg4o
      @user-ss6hl5wg4o Před 25 dny +4

      Как можно гордиться что родился в плену????

    • @uweklein7898
      @uweklein7898 Před 24 dny +4

      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.

    • @JohnJones-rg4cv
      @JohnJones-rg4cv Před 20 dny +1

      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.

  • @marchesofgermany2755
    @marchesofgermany2755 Před 2 lety +190

    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?

    • @pauleypavillion6088
      @pauleypavillion6088 Před rokem +24

      ITs too bad that Germany today are not using this type of Prussian military band and these type of soldiers.

    • @williamjackson5942
      @williamjackson5942 Před rokem +5

      @@pauleypavillion6088 The German Army plays many of the same tunes as always, you are confused!

    • @pezazul2917
      @pezazul2917 Před rokem

      @@williamjackson5942limk?

    • @Triggernlfrl
      @Triggernlfrl Před rokem +1

      @@williamjackson5942 Only when it is aproved by the occupiers....

    • @r.c.s.3192
      @r.c.s.3192 Před rokem +5

      It is a video recording of the live broadcast of the GDR state television at the time!

  • @Bigsky1991
    @Bigsky1991 Před rokem +17

    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.

  • @henryberger2793
    @henryberger2793 Před měsícem +33

    Bin ebenfalls stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben. Solche brutalen Angriffe auf Deutsche Bürger von Migranten und Flüchtlingen hätte es da nicht gegeben.

    • @user-yv7wh5vd7j
      @user-yv7wh5vd7j Před 24 dny +1

      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!

    • @matzek.9119
      @matzek.9119 Před 20 dny

      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?

    • @user-xh7nk8jc8z
      @user-xh7nk8jc8z Před 19 dny

      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.

  • @stevenmajor9513
    @stevenmajor9513 Před 10 měsíci +35

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 10 měsíci +12

      The 90 degree turn is called the "Schwenk", its a Prussian tradition!

    • @stevenmajor9513
      @stevenmajor9513 Před 10 měsíci +4

      @@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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 10 měsíci +6

      @@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

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 8 měsíci +3

      @@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.

  • @Arkan.97
    @Arkan.97 Před 2 lety +30

    Congrats on the new channel 👏 hope it'll grow bigger and better

  • @robertshonk518
    @robertshonk518 Před rokem +47

    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.

    • @dunbustin
      @dunbustin Před rokem +10

      It looks like Nicolae Ceaușescu at 10:10.
      Little did anyone know what was to be his unenviable fate a few months later.

    • @erik_griswold
      @erik_griswold Před rokem +3

      Thanks for pointing this out.

    • @tech9803
      @tech9803 Před rokem +10

      ​@dunbustin Also Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Yasir Arafat

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 Před rokem +4

      A veritable gallery of communist honchos and their friends, 1989

    • @libertycowboy2495
      @libertycowboy2495 Před 11 měsíci

      American communists....now just democrats.😡

  • @plf2813
    @plf2813 Před měsícem +7

    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".

    • @ursulafranke4552
      @ursulafranke4552 Před 17 dny

      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.

  • @user-cf4zm6yr7v
    @user-cf4zm6yr7v Před měsícem +4

    Молодцы немцы. Зачётный парад.

  • @Acoran
    @Acoran Před rokem +9

    Thank you for uploading this!

  • @wxyxx4795
    @wxyxx4795 Před 2 lety +149

    Thank you so much for the upload! Words cannot describe how much i enjoy this clip. Truly amazing!

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 2 lety +5

      And there's still more to come!

    • @NandiCollector
      @NandiCollector Před 2 lety +4

      *This is just, PERFECTION!*

    • @frederickgates4349
      @frederickgates4349 Před rokem +2

      Truly i'm stunned 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

    • @resireg
      @resireg Před rokem

      ​@@MaximusandHistory what brand and model is the limousine the general is Riding?

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem

      @@resireg GAZ 13-B "Chaika"

  • @earlystrings1
    @earlystrings1 Před 10 měsíci +19

    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.

    • @darwinqpenaflorida3797
      @darwinqpenaflorida3797 Před měsícem

      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

    • @user-ny6ql8yi4e
      @user-ny6ql8yi4e Před měsícem

      Да горбатый, сука, всех сдал - и своих и союзников

    • @krle7970
      @krle7970 Před 20 dny +3

      Last “true” Prussian parade, as in Germans. The drill survives all over the world, most notably in chile

    • @darwinqpenaflorida3797
      @darwinqpenaflorida3797 Před 20 dny +2

      @@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 😊😊

  • @user-pp9od2yo6z
    @user-pp9od2yo6z Před měsícem +5

    Es gibt immer ewig gestrige

  • @user-fi1kk5ge5d
    @user-fi1kk5ge5d Před rokem +52

    Красавцы войска Восточной Германии, ну просто заглядение.

  • @shalashaska5851
    @shalashaska5851 Před rokem +29

    Gorbachev despised Honecker so much at this point. You can see it on his face.

    • @TheMerryPrangster
      @TheMerryPrangster Před rokem +1

      um ok

    • @nicolenicole2389
      @nicolenicole2389 Před rokem

      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

    • @maka2150
      @maka2150 Před 2 měsíci

      Kein Wunder. Dieser Mensch war sich selbst der Nächste und hat, um sich herum, nichts mehr verstanden.

    • @DimONTimOFF
      @DimONTimOFF Před měsícem +4

      Горбачева презирают теперь все! В том числе и за предательство Хонакера!

    • @plf2813
      @plf2813 Před měsícem +3

      ​@@DimONTimOFFистория все расставила на свои места! Нет более проклятых людей в наше время, чем Горбачев и Ельцин!

  • @albert21able
    @albert21able Před 2 měsíci +4

    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.

    • @DietmarBeil-wi3zv
      @DietmarBeil-wi3zv Před měsícem

      Die einstige deutsche Armee die keinen Krieg verloren hat

  • @GermanSniperr
    @GermanSniperr Před rokem +26

    Irgendwie schade, das es sowas heute nicht mehr in dem Ausmaß gibt

    • @mehmetdereroberer5553
      @mehmetdereroberer5553 Před 11 měsíci +12

      Anstatt dessen gibt es jetzt LGBT und CSD paraden 😢

    • @SD_Alias
      @SD_Alias Před 10 měsíci

      @@mehmetdereroberer5553 Zieh dir doch ne Uniform an und geh marschieren…

    • @holger_p
      @holger_p Před 8 měsíci +3

      Findest Du das so unterhaltsam ? Da hat schon damals kaum jemand zugeschaut.

  • @Mike-br8zt
    @Mike-br8zt Před rokem +329

    What memories. I was in the DDR and Poland in 1988 and you could feel something in the air.

    • @MerleUnchained
      @MerleUnchained Před rokem +107

      Yeah, total loss of faith in communism.

    • @jody6851
      @jody6851 Před rokem

      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.

    • @avenueb
      @avenueb Před rokem +33

      you could smell socialism it was stale

    • @PolakInHolland
      @PolakInHolland Před rokem +62

      @@MerleUnchained There never was any faith. Poles never wanted it.

    • @BG_Low
      @BG_Low Před rokem +21

      You mean the smell of radioactive from Chernobyl, right?

  • @marklunam4079
    @marklunam4079 Před 2 lety +134

    Fantastic. The way the band turns left is amazing.

    • @flatterfotze8667
      @flatterfotze8667 Před 2 lety +5

      👍👍👍

    • @user-oh1sv8vz2y
      @user-oh1sv8vz2y Před 2 lety

      Муштра туды её в качель но иначе такое не достигается.

    • @PineappleOnPizza69
      @PineappleOnPizza69 Před rokem +3

      It was neat right. You can see the discipline

    • @knyazigorthe8617
      @knyazigorthe8617 Před rokem +2

      👍👍👍

    • @dabsy123
      @dabsy123 Před rokem +2

      Nazis and Prussians did the same...all been passed down to even the goose stepping..

  • @spastikusmaximus7146
    @spastikusmaximus7146 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Herrlich!

  • @hartmutlorentzen9659
    @hartmutlorentzen9659 Před měsícem +8

    Das Interessanteste sind wie so häufig die Kommentare!

  • @ernestpaniagua1210
    @ernestpaniagua1210 Před rokem +256

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +37

      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

    • @ernestpaniagua1210
      @ernestpaniagua1210 Před rokem +11

      @@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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +7

      @@ernestpaniagua1210 Where you in Berlin at the time?

    • @vwdubguy1
      @vwdubguy1 Před rokem +1

      Ganz dunkel

    • @ernestpaniagua1210
      @ernestpaniagua1210 Před rokem +6

      @@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.

  • @MaximusandHistory
    @MaximusandHistory  Před 2 lety +106

    If you enjoyed the video, please support my channel. I will be uploading more amazing content as seen here!

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 2 lety +3

      @Das Marokkanische Kaiserreich I appreciate the love! I hope the channel grows into something big! :)

    • @user-oh1sv8vz2y
      @user-oh1sv8vz2y Před 2 lety +2

      @@MaximusandHistory
      Это правда что в нынешней ФРГ люди из ГДР считаются людьми второго сорта ?

    • @oparudi2248
      @oparudi2248 Před 2 lety +1

      Wenn ich heute unsere Handseln sehe wird mir ganz schlecht !!! 😫😫😫

    • @luismachucam.3210
      @luismachucam.3210 Před 2 lety +3

      Con alta probabilidad el mejor ejército en su época. Gran disciplina y compromiso. Nunca necesitó probar su valía.

    • @MrDICKHEAD28
      @MrDICKHEAD28 Před rokem +3

      THIS IS GREAT HD VERSION BUT WHY THE BIG WATERMARK AT THE BOTTOM?

  • @moln8077
    @moln8077 Před 9 měsíci +6

    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! 🤗🏹🇫🇮

  • @viya706
    @viya706 Před měsícem +2

    Отличный парад .По цтв в СССР не разу не видел,только войска СА.

  • @JEEROFUKU
    @JEEROFUKU Před 2 měsíci +40

    Es lebe unsere Kameraden vom Heer und der Marine der DDR. Euer Kamerad von der GSVG😢

    • @klon_en
      @klon_en Před měsícem +1

      Здравствуйте! Я так понимаю, вы из бывшего СССР, но пишите на немецком. И мне стало интересно, солдат ГСВГ учили немецкому языку и письму, да?

    • @JEEROFUKU
      @JEEROFUKU Před měsícem +3

      @@klon_en учил немецкий в школе и техникуме, потом служил в ГДР.

    • @fumantxus2623
      @fumantxus2623 Před měsícem

      ​@@klon_enVIVA STALIN 🩸🩸🩸🩸

  • @user-yj2uh4eo8g
    @user-yj2uh4eo8g Před 2 měsíci +10

    Die deutsche Armee, die niemals Krieg führen mußte.

    • @user-ip1pu1lq9q
      @user-ip1pu1lq9q Před 22 dny

      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.

  • @vts1004
    @vts1004 Před měsícem +4

    Советская Германия😢Братский ГДР

  • @olafge
    @olafge Před 10 měsíci +154

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 10 měsíci +19

      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.

    • @olafge
      @olafge Před 10 měsíci +19

      @@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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 10 měsíci +24

      @@olafge It is quite surreal to see so many people who were actually in Berlin around this time watching my CZcams videos. I've had countless American, British and former East German soldiers leave comments on my videos, sharing their experiences all here on CZcams.
      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.

    • @Alan-gx8gf
      @Alan-gx8gf Před 10 měsíci +1

      Double the Speed of the Film and I am sure you will see it in a different light , hilarious ! 😎

    • @cheswick617
      @cheswick617 Před 10 měsíci

      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.

  • @Tom-kn4hx
    @Tom-kn4hx Před 2 lety +43

    Just amazing! Great quality! Thanks.

  • @user-hv9hy4vt5j
    @user-hv9hy4vt5j Před 2 lety +84

    В ГДР, в ННА ГДР сохранился настоящий прусский воинский дух и армейские традиции.

    • @user-ok3nn5op6y
      @user-ok3nn5op6y Před rokem +10

      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.

    • @KronStaro
      @KronStaro Před rokem

      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....

    • @cv990a4
      @cv990a4 Před rokem +3

      @@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.

    • @user-jn3cg7jt9t
      @user-jn3cg7jt9t Před rokem +5

      @@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

    • @cv990a4
      @cv990a4 Před rokem

      @@user-jn3cg7jt9t Utter nonsense.

  • @hubertpolomski8740
    @hubertpolomski8740 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Wir waren eine Friedenstruppe.

  • @user-gp3hn4et7b
    @user-gp3hn4et7b Před 2 měsíci +2

    Лучшее друзьям, вы германцы помните, что вы наши друзья, кто об этом забывать должен?

  • @randylidilc5516
    @randylidilc5516 Před rokem +98

    The marching band is awesome 👌

  • @Stamsite111
    @Stamsite111 Před 2 lety +15

    Thank you very mutch for the upload, do you have a video of NVA Zapfenstriech 1989 in good quality?

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 2 lety +12

      Yes, I do! But it's about 21 minutes long, compared to the original 35 minutes unfortunately. But you will still enjoy it as takes the best highlights of the Zapfenstreich! :)

  • @user-vs4nq4eh3p
    @user-vs4nq4eh3p Před 11 měsíci +11

    Мы живём с вами во времена,когда прошлое становится реальностью с такой скоростью, что хочется себя ущипнуть, чтобы понять ☕☕уж не кошмар ли это.

  • @andreywp8705
    @andreywp8705 Před 27 dny +4

    Последние немецкие мужчины. Последняя немецкая армия. Auferstanden aus Ruinen...

  • @pikitsy
    @pikitsy Před 2 lety +4

    Thanks for upload

  • @daraka1754
    @daraka1754 Před rokem +5

    My dad from Bulgaria lived in DDR, in East Berlin 1986-1988

  • @joebleak1354
    @joebleak1354 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Я маршировал на этом"Плаце".
    Фюрстенвальде на Шпрее.88.

  • @Automatko
    @Automatko Před 7 měsíci +6

    Das waren noch gute zeiten ...

  • @worldclassflags
    @worldclassflags Před rokem +83

    Хорошая подборка видео истории! Желаю удачи в развитии канала!

  • @sergiogregorat1830
    @sergiogregorat1830 Před rokem +17

    12:00 There is not and there will never again be anyone in the world who wields sticks like those front row drummers.

  • @peterlojewski7057
    @peterlojewski7057 Před 11 měsíci +5

    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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 11 měsíci +2

      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!

  • @dlennox1629
    @dlennox1629 Před měsícem +3

    They march very well....

  • @Yourfavgerman_15
    @Yourfavgerman_15 Před rokem +60

    This is the last ever German marching parade 😢

    • @Etendard1708
      @Etendard1708 Před rokem +13

      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)

    • @alexanderv4609
      @alexanderv4609 Před rokem +25

      This was the last DDR parade, and that is good. There is one Germany, and thanks God it is not communist.

    • @spa2133
      @spa2133 Před rokem

      Last parade under Soviet tyrants. They managed to set East Germany 30 years behind West Germany. Russians never brought good to anyone

    • @Etendard1708
      @Etendard1708 Před rokem

      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 🤣

    • @vbxxx4895
      @vbxxx4895 Před rokem +1

      ​@@alexanderv4609 Das ist gut?
      Leck mich du oooaaarrrsssccch

  • @mieszkokoniecpolski5621
    @mieszkokoniecpolski5621 Před rokem +40

    Piękna dopracowana w szczegòłach defilada.
    Brawo.👏👏👍

  • @rene-75
    @rene-75 Před 10 měsíci +31

    hermosa parada militar de alemania y seguir la tendencia prusiana, saludos desde chile

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 10 měsíci +7

      Chile proudly continues Prussian military tradition! Thank you for the kind comment!

    • @TheNeojimmy
      @TheNeojimmy Před 10 měsíci +4

      Pero esa es Alemania Oriental, no tiene relación con la doctrina prusiana de Chile 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ que es de la Alemania Prusiana

    • @charliedex111
      @charliedex111 Před 10 měsíci +5

      Es Alemania del Este, son más soviéticos que nada

  • @krustyclown2152
    @krustyclown2152 Před 10 měsíci +6

    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.

    • @user-oc6so8er2s
      @user-oc6so8er2s Před měsícem

      В обществе, где постоянно не хватало элементарной туалетной бумаги, а все деньги тратились на содержание армии? 🤣🤡

  • @user-cd2tg2gs4e
    @user-cd2tg2gs4e Před rokem +9

    А было о чем поговорить Хенекеру и Горбачёву. Настроение неуверенное. Последний год стены.

  • @scanida5070
    @scanida5070 Před 2 lety +178

    Not truly in a German fashion but still quite impressive! Especially the hand movements of the drummers at 12:18

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 2 lety +81

      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.

    • @scanida5070
      @scanida5070 Před 2 lety +32

      @@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.

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před 2 lety +28

      @@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.

    • @scanida5070
      @scanida5070 Před 2 lety +15

      @@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.

    • @jimijarvinenorgan
      @jimijarvinenorgan Před 2 lety +16

      @@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.

  • @politicstoday8002
    @politicstoday8002 Před 8 měsíci +5

    Wieso haben wir solche nicht mehr heute :(

    • @MrCrote92
      @MrCrote92 Před 7 měsíci

      weil ihr Nazis nie wieder an die Macht kommt.

    • @avus-kw2f213
      @avus-kw2f213 Před 6 měsíci

      @@MrCrote92 WW2 was a NAZI civil war
      You are not correct

    • @majoketchu4435
      @majoketchu4435 Před měsícem

      haste doch in Nordkorea zB

  • @redcar9949
    @redcar9949 Před rokem +14

    The most recent time in world history where you can see Germans goosestepping

  • @riovoneinzbern8849
    @riovoneinzbern8849 Před 2 lety +30

    best quality!

  • @wadimmaximowvzale
    @wadimmaximowvzale Před 2 lety +15

    Прекрасно

  • @user-zk2gy3ht9l
    @user-zk2gy3ht9l Před 3 měsíci +5

    Мы не были врагами...

    • @maka2150
      @maka2150 Před 2 měsíci

      Und sind es auch jetzt nicht. Wir sollen es nur denken. Wie früher. Der Mensch ist und bleibt ein Arschloch.

  • @user-gg8iq6dp7v
    @user-gg8iq6dp7v Před 19 dny +3

    Ich bin auch Stolz bei dieser Armee gedient zu haben.

  • @brasilbrasil9367
    @brasilbrasil9367 Před rokem +9

    Topissimooooooooo uma lenda mesmo de verdade

  • @yossiallen3316
    @yossiallen3316 Před rokem +28

    In the passed, I worked with former members of the NVA. East Germany had the best military of all Warsaw Pact countries outside the USSR.

  • @jurgen7579
    @jurgen7579 Před 6 měsíci +19

    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

  • @steffencocconi8474
    @steffencocconi8474 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Erst Sommer 89 zum Raketenschießen, danach zur Parade 40. Jahrestag. Zwei Monate später wurde ich entlassen. Das war meine NVA Zeit.

  • @user-re3di2mu4z
    @user-re3di2mu4z Před rokem +124

    Спасибо за интересное видео и сохранение памяти о прошлом. Успехов в творчестве и всего самого хорошего😊

    • @MaximusandHistory
      @MaximusandHistory  Před rokem +16

      Thank you so much!

    • @user-re3di2mu4z
      @user-re3di2mu4z Před rokem +9

      @@MaximusandHistory Пожалуйста😊

    • @Ded-Miron
      @Ded-Miron Před rokem

      правильное виде для совкодрочеров.

    • @ronaldmessina4229
      @ronaldmessina4229 Před 7 měsíci

      Another selfish idiot who wants all of the language in anglosajón. All of the languages are correct to explain the situation

  • @johndoe-cv8pr
    @johndoe-cv8pr Před rokem +160

    Germany needs to bring these military traditions and identity back. they are pure German and very cool.

    • @finnsimons1705
      @finnsimons1705 Před rokem +12

      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.

    • @nicholasjeremyson
      @nicholasjeremyson Před rokem +55

      @@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.

    • @yourfriendlyneighborhoodf1802
      @yourfriendlyneighborhoodf1802 Před rokem

      @@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

    • @Ktaurus26
      @Ktaurus26 Před rokem +1

      @@finnsimons1705 Germany is a weak nation now. Afraid to call out the united states for attacking Nordsteam. Shame on Germany’s weakness

    • @sonckebecker8725
      @sonckebecker8725 Před rokem

      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!

  • @brianrunyon266
    @brianrunyon266 Před 9 měsíci +3

    Thanks for uploading this. American, and a history buff, and part German as well.

  • @user-sukaveka
    @user-sukaveka Před 6 dny +1

    Удивительно смотреть этот парад спустя годы, зная что вскоре произошло С ГДР (DDR). Выучка военных на высоте. Желаю немецкому народу всего наилучшего.

  • @pema1425
    @pema1425 Před 2 lety +30

    Wer hätte es damals gedacht, aber die Welt war sicherer als heute!

    • @robertnortan87
      @robertnortan87 Před 2 lety +1

      Mein Arsch, wie mann in Frankreich sagt 😏

    • @hanbyol19
      @hanbyol19 Před 2 lety +5

      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...

    • @evelinehagymasi-3881
      @evelinehagymasi-3881 Před rokem +1

      ​@@hanbyol19dem kann ich nur zustimmen

    • @Mrrebuldeiro
      @Mrrebuldeiro Před rokem +1

      Because you had a serious army.

    • @matthiasburger2315
      @matthiasburger2315 Před rokem +1

      Nein, sie erschien nur leichter in gut und böse trennbar. Darüber bestand komplementäre Einigkeit.

  • @alanhunter-craig8041
    @alanhunter-craig8041 Před rokem +31

    This looks and marches like a proper German Army that has retained its Prussian tradition.

  • @user-oe7tx1hr3w
    @user-oe7tx1hr3w Před měsícem +3

    Самая сильная армия в восточной европе! Слава ГДР!