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Originally Posted by HorseSoldier
NATO Vehicle Guide lists two East German divisions as being rebuilt after lost/destroyed on the Chinese front. Don't have the book handy but it's mentioned in the write up for the Germans.
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Thanks for the heads up, I didn't have the 1st edition NATO Vehicle Guide, but now have downloaded it.
The background history section of the guide does mention that the two East German divisions were overrun sometime around May 1996 due to a communications foul up during the breakout from the Shenyang pocket. Only a few hundred survivors make it back to WP lines. No mention of what happened to those few hundred survivors afterwards.
This is before the Bundeswher crosses the inter German border in October, so it throws my theory that some of the divisions officers may have had advanced notice in the trash.
In case anyone is wondering, it looks like the two East German divisions sent to China were the 9th TD and 11th MRD, reformed after the reunification as 29th PD and 211th PGD.