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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser
The cover art's from this article in ARMOR magazine: https://www.benning.army.mil/Armor/e...ber1994web.pdf
The actual East German plan was code named Operation CENTER. The only Soviet force involved was to be the 6th Guards Motor-Rifle Brigade in East Berlin, all other forces were East German: 1st MRD from Potsdam, a battalion from the 40th Air Assault Regiment, the nine Frontier Guards Regiments that manned the Berlin Wall, two "People's Police Alert Units" and four battalions of East German Worker's Militia from Potsdam. |
So if the East Germans failed to take West Berlin, the Soviets would not be the once to be blame.