The Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, known as the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany from 1945 to 1989 and the Western Group of Forces from 1989 to 1994 were the troops of the Soviet Army
Inspection of 39th Guards Motor Rifle Division, 1968.
Abandoned Soviet Army barracks in Stendal, 1991.
Soviet military equipment being loaded aboard a ferry in Rostock, March 1991.
Soviet Military Road Police watchpost in Wittenberg, 1991.
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German reunification, also known as the expansion of the Federal Republic of Germany, was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culmina
Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
…offensive role and in 1989 became the Western Group of Forces. They remained in the eastern part of Germany after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification until 1994. The Group of Soviet Occupation Forces, Germany was formed after the end of World War II in Europe from formations of the 1st and 2nd…
Germans stand on top of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the days before the wall was torn down
1990 German Unity Day, with flags of all German states at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany
An East German political event on 21 April 1946: Otto Grotewohl (right) and Wilhelm Pieck (left) seal the merger of two parties, SPD and KPD, to form the SED, a communist party that would dominate the future East German state, with a symbolic handshake. Walter Ulbricht is seated in the foreground to the right of Grotewohl.Avraham Pisarek
Berlin Blockade (1948–1949)