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Originally Posted by Jason Weiser
From all accounts that I can glean from, the East Germans sound to me like they were left to fight a rear guard to extricate the Soviets from a Red Willow-style encirclement. I assume they were instead, encircled themselves and forced to capitulate. This will not play well back home at all.
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This to me has always been the trigger that started German Reunification. Before this event the East Germans were already uneasy with the direction that Soviet foreign policy was heading and the increasing political and social restrictions over Soviet allies (satellites). Both German militaries obviously discussed and made some contingency plans before the decimation of the two East German divisions in China, but the event and the clear implication that the Soviets were using and planning to use more German troops as cannon fodder in its war in the Far East led to an acceleration of reunification planning in the East and West German militaries.