Land Forces of the National People's Army
The Land Forces of the National People's Army was the ground-based military branch of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) National People's Army (NPA). The Land Forces Command, located at Geltow, was established on 1 December 1972 as a management body created for the land forces. The NPA itself was created on March 1, 1956, from the Kasernierte Volkspolizei.
A company of Landstreitkräfte troops on parade in East Berlin, May 1985
BTR-70s on parade in East Berlin, 1989
A T-55AM2B on display at the Panzermuseum in Münster
A T-55A at the Panzermuseum
The National People's Army were the armed forces of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1956 to 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 Berlin
A GDR 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