Hans Modrow
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Hans Modrow was a German politician best known as the last communist premier of East Germany.
Modrow in 1989
Modrow (center) rides through Dresden in a motorcade with cosmonauts Sigmund Jähn (left) and Valery Bykovsky (right), 25 September 1978
Modrow addressing the Volkskammer, 17 November 1989
Modrow with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl during the opening of the Brandenburg Gate, 22 December 1989
Volkssturm
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The Volkssturm was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. It was set up by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and established o
Hans Modrow
…Germans physically and morally. For six months during the Allied bombing of Stettin he served as a volunteer firefighter. He later served briefly in the Volkssturm in January 1945, and was subsequently captured as a prisoner of war by the Soviet Red Army in Stralsund in May 1945. He and other German prisoners were…
Volkssturmmänner marching in Berlin, November 1944. Most of the men are carrying Panzerfaust launchers; the man at the bottom carries an MG34.
Publication of the decree on the formation of the Volkssturm, 20 October 1944, first page
Second page of the publication of the decree on the formation of the Volkssturm, 20 October 1944
An SS Propaganda Company photograph of Volkssturm, 21 October 1944; only the men on the far left and far right end of the line appear to be uniformed members, with the far right being an Ordnungspolizei officer.