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Originally Posted by RN7
I don't quite understand your train of thought here.
East Germany as an independent state wasn't all that popular with most East Germans in real life. Most East Germans wanted a unified Germany unless they were payed up members of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (The East German Communist Party) and were getting all the advantages that being a member of that organisation brought to them. The Berlin Wall existed for one main reason, to stop East Germans becoming West Germans.
Why would the officer corps of the NVA and Bundesweher secretly cooperate and plan German Reunification if they had no intension of unifiying Germany.
Why would the Soviets and Warsaw Pact attack East Germany and start the Twilight War as we know if East Germany remained an independent state and the NVA wasn't cooperating with the Bundeswehr in the first place. If there was no West German troops in East Germany the NVA wouldn't have been able to take on Soviet forces.
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basically, what i am saying is that the DDR and BRD would officially be seperate states to rob the Soviets of the propaganda ability to say that the new unified state would be a rebirth of the Third Reich.
The reason why the Soviets attacked, was the fact that the West Germans had been allowed in to allow the East Germans to 'chose their own way'.. the leadership of the Bundeswehr and the DNVA were covertly communicating with each other after the losses of their most promenant units in the Far East Front against the PRC.
Also the DNVA joined the fight against the Soviets once it became evident that the Bundeswehr needed the support since the Soviets and other Pact allies where putting up a more fercious fight than they were expecting.
If you are fighting for your very existance you'r gonna use what tools you have, and not waste them... and maintaing the illusion that East and West Germany was two seperate states would rob those opposed to the fighting in europe as the rebirth of a miltary adventurism regime in the centre of Europe.
In reality, they would operate as a single state... but it wouldn't happen over night, but would happen naturally in a way that East and West Germany would be equal partners.
And not just the West Germans showing up and culling 25% or more of the DVNA as being redunant... because the reality that both German States really need those troops on the frontlines if they are going to survive.
Having the 'offical' stance that the DDR is seperate and working at their first true and free election in decades would be played up in a big way.. creating a good morale boost, and cutting the legs out from under the Soviets.
and when the two German states start working close together they would be brining the DDR up to the levels of the West so that the eventual unification would be beneficial to bought sides... with as little resentment as possible.
that's why i said the survivors of those DNVA units that got mauled would be used to provide reinforcements for other DNVA units in need of replacement personnel. And during the rest and refit periods those DNVA units would start getting Western Weapons, Equipment and vehicles to replace their lost Warsaw Pact gear.