The Border Troops of the German Democratic Republic was the border guard of the German Democratic Republic from 1946 to 1990.
An East German Grenzaufklärungszug (GAK) border trooper taking pictures of US Army activities across the inner German border
Grenztruppen guarding maintenance workers on the western side of the inner German border fence. The red tape in the foreground, the so-called "death cord", marked the area the work detail was permitted to operate, and workers stepping beyond the tape would be shot
Grenztruppen during an exercise near Mühlhausen on March 27, 1982
East German border guard Konrad Schumann fleeing East Germany, 1961
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The National People's Army were the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic from 1956 until 1990.
Soldiers of the Guard Regiment Friedrich Engels marching at a changing-of-the-guard ceremony at the Neue Wache on the Unter den Linden in East Berlin
A DDR finial, here for a flag of a Ministry of the Interior (MdI) unit; the NVA had the same in gold.
An NVA Tatra-813 carrying a GAZ-63
MiG-29 in East German service