Dale R. Herspring

Requiem for an Army

The Demise of the East German Military

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Most Western models suggest that in the face of open threats to the military's core interests, the army would have fought to keep the status quo. Yet the military actually facilitated the introduction of a new democratic polity and in the process dug its own grave. Trained under a Russian-inspired system that minimized the role of the individual, this group was suddenly exposed to the radically different 'Innere Fuehrung' concept that lies at the heart of the Bundeswehr's ethos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780847687190
• ISBN-10: 0847687198
• Artikelnr.: 21484567

Autorenporträt

Dale R. Herspring is University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Part I: Background to Crisis Chapter 2 The NVA: The Key to the GDR's
Soviet Policy Part 3 Part II: The End of the NVA Chapter 4 The Beginning of
the End: Honecker Is Ousted Chapter 5 Krenz Picks Up the Pieces: The NVA Is
Depoliticized Chapter 6 Modrow Tries to Salvage Socialism: The Military on
the Verge of Collapse Chapter 7 The First Democratically Elected
Government: Epplemann Crusades for Two German Armies Part 8 Part III:
Integrating the NVA into the Bundeswehr Chapter 9 Integrating NVA Personnel
into a Democratic Military: The Machinery Chapter 10 The NVA Professional:
Making the Transition Chapter 11 Lessons from the NVA Chapter 12 Appendix
1: Key East German Military Leaders Chapter 13 Apendix 2: Questionnaire
Answered by Former NVA Officers Chapter 14 Notes Chapter 15 Index