Nikolas93TS Posted March 12, 2017 Share Posted March 12, 2017 (edited) A limited number (IIRC 30 sets were produced in 1967) was deployed to GSFG for a short period, but it proved the unpopular solution. They were also tested on many different vehicles, T-54/T-55, T-10M (actually issued too) and even PT-76. Edited March 12, 2017 by Nikolas93TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted July 6, 2017 Author Share Posted July 6, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Werb Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Both appear to be Polish Star 660 6x6 trucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyE Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Didn't Peru and a few others add Malyutka to their T-55? Peru added Malyutkas to basically anything that could move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 I hadn't seen these pics before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stefan Kotsch Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 (edited) However, none part of the East German army had crossed the border. Edited August 10, 2017 by Stefan Kotsch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 While true, but soviet army has deployed from german territory. which can also be seen by the markings for the staffs on the map: !. guards tank army; 70th guards army; pawlowsky (polish i guess), polish army and new army staff the darkened areas marked as assembly areas for DDR NVA units have not been used as we know now. I wonder if these have been the actually planned for areas? And how did Der Spiegel (W.-German weekly news magazine) obtain the info? That there have not been NVA in the CSSR should have been obvious too. hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dark_Falcon Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 (edited) 8 color photos stated to be from August 21st, 1968 were posted on Twitter on Sunday (Tweet 1 and Tweet 2). The poster, Marcin Czerwinski, said they were taken by his uncle and had not been published prior to his posting them. I've posted the 3 photos that focus most on tanks below: Edited August 23, 2017 by Dark_Falcon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel Novak Posted August 23, 2017 Share Posted August 23, 2017 Nice find, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alejandro_ Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 Great footage, thanks Jim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jim Warford Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 I recently discovered this info from 2008 confirming that no East German Army units participated in Operation Danube: "Two East German divisions were already ready at the border: one had to travel to Děčín and Litoměřice, the other to Pilsen. The Czechoslovak anti-Reform Communists Drahomír Kolder and Vasil Biľak but Brezhnev personally asked German soldiers to stay at home. Consequently, Moscow's leadership decided at the last minute that two already mobilized divisions should not cross the GDR border. According to German historians, then East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht felt humiliation." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Correct. It was felt that German troops invading Czechoslovakia on the 30th anniversary of 1938 would be bad PR, even if they were good communists. The East German government of course wanted to prove that they were the latter first; they had spent the previous ten years distancing themselves from the original goal of a united Germany under communist rule in favor of the narrative that the DDR had nothing to do with previous German history except select revolutionary bits, and rather was an all-new thing, the first workers-and-peasants state on German territory whose tradition was communist resistance to the Nazis, basically having been on the winning side of WW II. Barring them from the Czech Blitzkrieg revival was a major blow to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Falcon Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Correct. It was felt that German troops invading Czechoslovakia on the 30th anniversary of 1938 would be bad PR, even if they were good communists. The East German government of course wanted to prove that they were the latter first; they had spent the previous ten years distancing themselves from the original goal of a united Germany under communist rule in favor of the narrative that the DDR had nothing to do with previous German history except select revolutionary bits, and rather was an all-new thing, the first workers-and-peasants state on German territory whose tradition was communist resistance to the Nazis, basically having been on the winning side of WW II. Barring them from the Czech Blitzkrieg revival was a major blow to them. The Soviet leadership was likely right about the bad PR it would have generated, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 Oh, I have absolutely no doubt. I can see the ten-feet-high headlines of "SBZ* HAS GERMAN TANKS ROLLING THROUGH PRAGUE AGAIN 30 YEARS LATER" accompanied by side-by-side pictures of then and now West Germany's conservative Springer Press would have made of this right now, followed by every other official and unofficial news source in the Western world. * Sowjetische Besatzungszone, Soviet Occupation Zone. Even after Springer's papers started referring to the DDR as such, they put it in quotation marks by way of disacknowledgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzermann Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) Oh, I have absolutely no doubt. I can see the ten-feet-high headlines of "SBZ* HAS GERMAN TANKS ROLLING THROUGH PRAGUE AGAIN 30 YEARS LATER" accompanied by side-by-side pictures of then and now West Germany's conservative Springer Press would have made of this right now, followed by every other official and unofficial news source in the Western world. * Sowjetische Besatzungszone, Soviet Occupation Zone. Even after Springer's papers started referring to the DDR as such, they put it in quotation marks by way of disacknowledgement. Czechs and Slovaks would not have been happy to see german visitors again. Coming once again to occupy. and probabaly they saw a risk in escalating the situation and driving the czechoslovak population to act more rebellious fighting against the german occupation.. What the BILD prints was not of much concern to the central committee I think. They were going to be painted as evil invaders anyway. Edited February 12, 2018 by Panzermann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Kotsch Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) Czechs and Slovaks would not have been happy to see german visitors again.In the same way, the reasons for this were also ( non officially) explained in the GDR. There were only 23 years of them since 1945, and the memories were still too fresh. Edited February 23, 2019 by Stefan Kotsch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 T-10Ms from the Heavy Tank Regiment, 1st Guards Tank Army (GSFG) in Plzen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted August 6, 2018 Author Share Posted August 6, 2018 Just to clarify things regarding those T-10Ms...it's highly unlikely that they were organic to the 1st Guards. According to CIA/FOIA sources, the 1st Guards either didn't have a heavy tank regiment or had a regiment that was still equipped with "JS" heavy tanks. The most likely scenario is that these T-10Ms were included with the units that task organized into the 1st Guards from the 8th Guards CAA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Peter Posted August 18, 2018 Share Posted August 18, 2018 Oct. 31,1968 the last Hungarian army unit leaves Czechoslovakia at Drégelypalánk Source, with memoir of an artillery recon NCO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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