How would the east german army fight in a WWIII scenario?

  • Poorly, most of them would either desert or surrender

    Votes: 6 7.1%
  • They would fight reasonably well, but the bundeswehr would outmatch them

    Votes: 65 77.4%
  • The NVA would fight better than the bundeswehr

    Votes: 7 8.3%
  • The NVA would fight as the same level of the Soviet, british and ameriacn armies

    Votes: 6 7.1%

  • Total voters
    84
As we know, the peace loving WarPac only attacks to defend its freedoms and its people, so I think the DDR can count on its troops so long as they have no where to defect to, trapped between the Soviets and NATO they are cannon fodder to open a breach the Soviets hope to exploit fast enough to avoid the nuclear balloon going up. We know the DDR had fully infiltrated the FDR and knew every secret so the WarPac might be bested in battle but had both numbers and intelligence on its side, it would not be pretty and every chance to cut Europe to pieces. They either get to loot the rubble and corpses in the West or they perish for the cause, the USSR could care less.
 
I keep seeing people mentioning the NVAs morale, what was the main issue with it? I'm not too familiar with the internal problems. I know the NVA was with Soviet Union and friends. If it was fighting west Germans, their fellow countrymen then shouldn't the bundeswehr have a similar issue?

That's not the main problem

I had made many threads about east germany, and in every of them a single major issue happens: The eastern germans saw their country as a soviet occupation zone, they hated their government, and as soon the soviet government became unable to slaughter the opposition as they did in 1953, the DDR fell, here one of the comments I saw:

I was born in the G.D.R., so let me tell you, the communist goverment is done the moment the Red Army is gone. Without the protection of the russian tanks (see 1953 uprising) there is no chance they can stay in power.

So it seems that in case of war, the eastern german army would be fighting not only against the NATO, but also against a massive internal unrest
 
That's not the main problem

I had made many threads about east germany, and in every of them a single major issue happens: The eastern germans saw their country as a soviet occupation zone, they hated their government, and as soon the soviet government became unable to slaughter the opposition as they did in 1953, the DDR fell, here one of the comments I saw:

So it seems that in case of war, the eastern german army would be fighting not only against the NATO, but also against a massive internal unrest

I suppose, I always joke about how great being in communist Germany must have been if they were so eager to take an extended vacation into the worse off west Germany after the wall fell.
 
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