Our guest served from 1986 in the Nationale Volksarmee as a platoon leader and later as a Fallschirmjäger. 

He transitioned to the Bundeswehr at reunification where he is still in active duty.

He tells us all about the life as a soldier in the fearsome NVA and beyond.

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Our guest served from 1986 in the Nationale Volksarmee as a platoon leader and later as a Fallschirmjäger. He transitioned to the Bundeswehr at reunification where he is still in active duty. He tells us all about the life as a soldier in the fearsome NVA and beyond. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/escalation1985/message

Episode 12: East German Army and Paratrooper Veteran Interview

Sit down with us around the campfire in a forest somewhere in the Fulda Gap.

Cold War Campers is the official Escalation 1985 podcast where game developers, historians, 1980s military experts, collectors of weapons, gear and uniforms get together to discuss the 1980s and what it would have been like had the Cold War gone hot.

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Sit down with us around the campfire in a forest somewhere in the Fulda Gap. Cold War Campers is the official Escalation 1985 podcast where game developers, historians, 1980s military experts, collectors of weapons, gear and uniforms get together to discuss the 1980s and what it would have been like had the Cold War gone hot.

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Episode 12: East German Army and Paratrooper Veteran Interview

Episode 12: East German Army and Paratrooper Veteran Interview