East German stay-behinds after Reunification.
Anyone who's done any reading on the loathsome Stasi understand why the East Germans were happy to reunify with West Germany, however after reunification the people that made up the Stasi and former NVA didn't just disappear, they still resided in Germany. In the Twilight War most of these people must have looked at an uncertain fate.
The most obvious thing to do would be to immediately round them up and intern them as they posed a significant security risk. These individuals had links to various Warsaw Pact forces and the Stasi in particular worked closely with the KGB among others (the KGB thought so highly of them that they were the only intelligence service permitted to work inside Russia). Obviously many former members of these organisations and organisations like them were not particularly linked or even positive towards the east but some undoubtedly would have been.
It's tempting to create stay-behind units from these people. Utilising cached equipment in secret locations they could wreak appropriate havoc where needed. They might have a variety of ideology and motivations that vary from unit to unit and would undoubtedly use the classic cell structure to minimise any compromising of other cells when caught.
While demolition and sabotage are simple enough to design we might want to create more complex aims for these groups.
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