East German Afrika Korps 

Mark Felton liked this comment how based is that 😎

Cubans don’t like basketball too much..They love volleyball.

@@zepter00 probably misspelt baseball

Cubans play baseball. I think you got that confused.

Spook is a little outdated, you should say person of color now

I know also some of them. One told me, he was on the border unit and some soldiers came back from the patrol, aimed for joke weapon on him and he did push the Ak rifle in the last moment, there was bullet in the chamber. Looks not so much serious for me, because even this border troops had to be better as normal troops

It was high quality for the second world, that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been low tier for the first world.

My dad was in the “Luftsturmregiment 40”, the paratrooper special force unit of the east german army. He said they laughed abt the discipline at the regular “Mot.-Schützen”, mentioned “fun fights” with soviet soldiers shooting jam jars with their tanks. But also that it was extremely rough, the higher private ranks severely bullied the newcomers into submission to the point that my dad tried saving some before the higher ups could get into their bedrooms and night and beat them up. Otherwise he also mentioned a lot of doing bs to wait until service was over on the day. But still a highly trained force. Several estimates by military experts suggest that if war had broken out, the warsaw pact would’ve overrun west germany in large parts due to the state of the east german army.

This was not true for the whole army. Alcohol was strictly forbidden in military objects. In 1990 when the Bundeswehr took over the NVA, they were impressed with the readiness and fast response time of the troops during drills.

@@Farukino Mit ihren 300 000 Mann war die NVA eine reine Verteidigungsarmee. Es gab keine "nach vorne Verteidigung" wie bei der Bundeswehr.

Quite a few African dictators experimented with socialism/communism. That's why they were invited.

Im the 3rd comment....YT is at their communist best again deleting free speech comments...well done You tube!

I was at that parade...active duty Army Officer in full class A uniform...videotaping it! It was incredible seeing all the scumbag Commie leaders in the stands...most/all dead now

In that video you can also clearly see Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega, who are still in power (Castro's dead but his system lives on). They are the curse of Latin America

*That video is the most watched on RU-vid. East Germany had one of the most memorable /perfectionists military parades ever (only behind North Korea).*

A friend of old told me the same. He was very nervous for a very long time.

My ex father-in-law was a member of south African army for 10 years. He always said that some of the units they were fighting were led by white guys with blacked up faces.

Since the ddr no longer exists, it's not obligated to take care of communist veterans.

Good, he should be deported to Africa.

I'm so glad the US government would never do such a thing to our veterans! Oh, wait.

Were east german ak 47s better than other variants of ak??

Quite the find

Wonder what the helmet would be worth . I saw a soviet helmet the otherday in a local store for 900 zar

The communist and socialist won and are in control of the western nations today re-named woke liberalism..

Did you know breytenbach? My old swaar was in 32 buffalo.

They still going,maybe even more than before..

I feel bad for the South Africans and Rhodesians that got fucked up by East and West collectively just because neither of them knew that there was no chance of political stability and economic prosperity under majority rule

@@Tom-uk2ow with chinese debt trap

@@pawelnowak9440 cmon,they own to west for thousand years,keep been indoctrinated....China give something,what shitty west left..Nothing

@@pawelnowak9440 as opposed to the jevvish debt trap? Lol

Deutsch-Ostafrika

They use to be a German colony

@@tomhenry897 Tanganyika was Zanzibar never was German.

@Peter T yes East Germany offered aid to Zanzibar from 1964 till 1971 when they were pushed out by the government of the mainland which had close ties to West Germany.

*stasi

Krasse Geschichte! Danke fürs teilen

@@magr7424 Gern. Das war Ende 89. Die Nordkoreaner haben damals ihren Lehrgang nicht beendet und wurden vorzeitig repatriiert.

My father served in the US army from 85 to about 89 and was stationed close to the east west border. He has always said if he went back to Germany he would rather see the east because he wasn't able to. I've aways been curious about east Germany, especially having grown up after the wall came down it still is weird to know there where 2 different geman nations just a hand full of years before I was born in 1997. Also thank you for your story I definitely found it very enjoyable I'll have to tell my dad, he will get a kick out of it.

Concentration camp, say it

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for sharing!

That’s amazing. . . I don’t doubt it one bit

Well, I heard the internal German border shootings were conducted by the soviet troops inEast German uniforms. Just heard.

Dran drauf drüber

They ( the polish) would had done it too!

I remember it was estimated that NATO troops would have lasted only 2 weeks during a conventional war with the Warsaw Pact.

Yes, GDR troups were there, as I was told by someone who was there. As he told me, only medical units participated.

@@holgere. Interesting! This is the first I've heard of that! Thanks!

@@aranos6269 Thanks! I didn't know that!

@@aranos6269 Yep.. especially their 1960s police force. Looks exactly like a Wehrmacht uniform

Correct. Also they were concerned about Polish sentiments as well since the DDR troops were massing on that border.

INSULTING orthodox Western BS about the DDR & the Stasi! AT least the DDR was not like (West) GERMany today, about to be placed under martial law.

Kurt Schumacher, an early politician in west Germany said that a communist is nothing more than a Nazi painted red.

They were the East German version of the KGB. Current Russian President Vladimir Putin was a KGB Liaison Officer stationed to advise and observe with the Stasi. The Stasi were granted independence from direct Moscow control in 1957. Very few policy changes Moscow sent out, the Stasi usually followed through with as well. During the occupation of Berlin after the war, the KGB actively recruited former Nazi Gestapo agents to the Stasi. Most accepted, as there was very little work available to them.

They learned from Gestapo and NKVD/KGB

Well Gestapo agents were unemployed after the end of Nazi Germany. I could imagine they were possibly hired in the beginning, yet later a de-Nazification started in the NVA, removing former Wehrmacht Generals. General Paulus still taught at Dresden Military academy, but many others had to quit. It is only logical that the same process took place in the Ministry of State Security.

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact part II.

they were all birds of a feather ,TYRANTS

DAIL WAIL & the Daily Express Cold War BS...

Indeed. The MfS was a TSHEKA extension. They worshipped the murderer Tshershinsky.

They couldn't find a single polite, Russian officer? Sounds like a joke in the making.

Oh,. My,.

My God, what nonsense! You've probably watched Hollywood Rambo movies too often.

@@vladimirnikolskiy Listen up, cheeki breeki...I read this in one of England's most serious and respected newspapers 'The Daily Telegraph'. A long time ago now, but I find it entirely plausible. I also read that black African students who tried to date Russian girls were given a hard time of it by the KGB. Facts don't stop being facts just because they offend some people.'

​@@atticlight9048i hope your being ironic about the torygraph

But if you read this, you have to consider that he was a former member of the ministry of state security. And in this position, not all of them he had written/told is "true" or completely believable. Wolf wasn't a historian, that writes as objective and crtitcal as possible about this topic.

@@einbucherwurm8039 yes, only trust the official sources. Anything else has to be propaganda

Ah yes, I actually read the book!

I will order that book and read it. Thanks for the info.

Oh,. My,.

Would be the hat trick if you did one on them too. Love the China stuff!

I know right!!!!

He’s far from being an armchair historian.

I wonder how dr Felton went in his school cross country?

Unfortunately in America history lessons will soon be abolished, as the fascist right ends our democracy and abolishes public education leaving it up to the parents to teach their kids everything. The US is on a one way path back to the 1800s, and these fascist Christian extremist will control the most powerful military in the world and use them to commit mass genocide in the states then other countries.

It's kinda wild comparing funding anti colonial movements like the MPLA or SWAPO to the Nazis

It is my understanding that the East Germans were mostly in a training capacity relating to Intelligence, Russians in a military advisory role (which resulted that some were in the vicinity where military action occurred and therefore some casualties on their side), and the Cubans were heavily participating in military action with by far the highest of number of participants from the Communist Block countries.

@@wolfgollnitz899 i recently meet a former russian sniper of the sowjet army who was working in angola when he was 19 ... they where mainly training local militia but also involved in gathering intelligence and monitoring the chokepoints of the conflict back then ... Officially they where not allowed to participate in any fighting - he told me there where several incendents involving russian troops when they whitnessed massacres on the local population in small remote villages while monitoring a area of military interest - he and his collegues killed several attackers from far away just because they couldnt hold back anymore after beeing witness to such atrocities for months without beeing allowed to do anything - obviously this resulted in severe punishment for him and his comrades including several months of military prison and dishonorable discharge.

@@wolfgollnitz899 The South africans kicked the cubans asses, in spite of cuban propaganda.

@@willemventer3935 the South Africans withdraw from Angola and gave up control of Namibia. Clearly the actions of a victorious military power 🙄

Not exactly what happened. South Africa successfully defended its borders but had a new internal threat, the commie Mandela and his terrorist friends.

​@freebeerfordworkers It interests me to read another story which mentions the fact the Cuban's were in Angola before the Portuguese withdrawal. The Cuban's, and others, have always claimed they intervened only after the South African "invasion" of 75 know as Op's Savannah. When in fact evidence has proven the new leftist Portuguese government had invited the Cuban's in to prop up the MPLA who the Portuguese wanted in power after they withdrew. Even though the MPLA was not the most popular party.

Did they get along?

@ Liam: brothers and cousins in arms

Interesting part of history, I herd briefly about this before.

@@liammeech3702 add good beer and that will happen everywhere

Nostalgia.

I did not know that.

Where did you hear that? I can't find that anywhere

Cuban instructors

@@sm70911 there’s one Cuban instructor and two East German.

Awesome movie. Don't forget Roger Moore telling his guy to check the Cuban for keys.

That napalm bomb bouncing down the dry river bed was a great scene.

@@jamesfields2916 That was probably the smallest napalm bomb ever created for an airplane. Amazing how they made about 5 - 10 gallons blow up like 100 gallons.

There was only Personal from Cuba in Afrika in Military Action, Not one easter German Unit!

@@mathiasbarkow8147 Hallo Mathias, ich habe persoenlich einen DDR gefangenen nach Pretoria begleitet. Ich wurde wohl ausgesucht, weil ich als deutsch Staemiger die Sprache beherschte. Es gab allerdings keine Unterhaltung. Es ist mir auch nicht bekannt wo und unter welchen Umstaenden er in Gefangenschaft kam. Ich bin laedglich im laetzten Moment zum Flughafen in Grootfontein im norden von Namibia gebracht worden

To: @@joanaherold6320 It is most likely that you transferred a single East-German (even a military) person. We indeed had advisors there but never whole UNITS or TROOPS. This little country of the GDR could never effort to do so, see my comments recently (March 2024) above. While the civilian support in the Southern countries of Africa was really large, the military (personnel) support was quite small - besides other factors the GDR and its NVA lacked simply the resources. However, what happen to this person, was he returned to the GDR? Do you know? Peace! from Dresden / Germany

One of our neighbours is a second generation German. He fought at Cuito in the same role - among Portuguese refugees doing national service like him, sitting in an EV Ratel with a fake turret, listening in on enemy frequencies.

@@henrykeyter53 We used state-of-the-art equipment from Siemens. I was in equipment logistics and was tasked with making sure vehicles were properly equipped. There were various projects with interesting names, the only one I can remember now is "Beargrip". We use Ratels, Samil50 box-bodies and even Toyota Landcruisers - all stuffed to the gills with radios and towing their own gennies.

@@JulianBeams Oom Jörn said that their Ratel had a fibreglass turret so they had to be careful not to get shot at. Guess they tried to hide the fact that it was an Electronic Warfare vehicle by camouflaging it as a normal Ratel 90? I wouldn't know. But apparently they intercepted and translated enemy communications, the Portuguese guys translated the Angolan and Cuban messages and he was there in case they intercepted anything in German.

@@henrykeyter53 Our vehicles had no turret so that's interesting. The Ratels made a good platform though. Good grounding for the antennae. You couldn't miss them, they had antennae sticking up all over. There was also a hydraulic antenna bolted to the side that was raised as needed and the whole covered in camo net. That's exactly how I got into the unit, 5 Signals, BTW - I could speak really bad schoolboy German. When they realised I would make a bad translator, I was sent off to the office and ended up as a logistics NCO. Many friends from my sqaudron did rotations to Cuito and back. Usually for a specific op.

@@JulianBeams Thank you for your service , from a Portuguese citizen.

I don't considering A that nazis and commies are two sides of the same coin and B what the so-called freedom fighters got up to ie rape, murder, corruption, theft, in SA, Zim, the Congo, etc, etc.

@@Brecconable Sure there was corruption and atrocious actions in African liberation movements but that doesn't mean they were literally Nazis. If your take away from the second world war is, murder, rape, theft = Nazi, then I don't know what to tell you. War criminals, possibly. Nationalists, most definitely. But Nazis is a different description and frankly not apt. Bringing up imagery of a completely different series of conflicts is usually not very useful and serves to diminish the severity of one or the other. Also additionally Fascism and Socialism/Communism are very different things.

"Liberation" 😆😅🤣😂 Let's see. Oh I know, like the "liberation" brought about by the likes of Ili Amin or Muahmmar Khadafi or any of the...practically ALL African leaders fighting those "evil imperialist" Europeans to this very day right?? And how many Europeans were involved in the last genocide of the XX century? Oh that's right, I forgot, that was in Rwanda where one AFRICAN group mass murdered another AFRICAN group...no "imperialist Europeans" involved! That "liberation" is the one you're talking about???!!!!

In fact Mark Felton already did a couple of videos about the military legacy of Nazi Germany - the Bundeswehr and the NVA.

MORE Cold War stuff period!

And boss of Dynamo Berlin.

@@dpt6849 that was mielke

@@dpt6849 The SV ('Sportvereinigung') Dynamo was led by Erich Mielke. He (not Honecker) was President of this umbrella sports organisation. The SV comprised several clubs, such as SC Dynamo Berlin - the biggest of them all -, SG Dynamo Dresden (football), FSC Dynamo Eilenburg (parachuting) and many more.

@@bomeesc7480 thanks

@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 thanks

it is very hard for a "westerner" with no experience of commie country to understand that the title of "president" or "minister" is much less than "general secretary of the communist party". at 6:00, those are probably executive outcomes guys

@@uncletimo6059 Titles in a dictionary system (right or left) are a chapter of its own. 😂 Yes, some are title collectors. Erich Honecker was one of them. LOL But what do you mean with "executive outcome guys"? English isn't my native language. 🤪

@@u.e.u.e. executive outcomes was a south african private military company i.e. mercenaries. very famous.

@@uncletimo6059 That's rather possible than NVA troups. 😉

Thank you for making these corrections. I saw the video and i doubt the accuracy of some key points of mr. Felton too. (Unfortunatly, this is not the first time that he has done less accurate research and create some lurid stories like the "BILD"-Newspaper. I'm thinking of the case with the Tiger and the german tank museum in munster for example)

Except Angela Merkel's family, and her, aged 2, lol. They were amongst a very small minority of West Germans who defected to the East. There was a actually a centre in the GDR where they were held for a couple of months to run security checks (to ensure they were not BND agents) before they commenced their new life in the workers' paradise.

I once saw a docu about West Germans moving to East Germany. In most cases it was ideology or simply love that moved them east. The procedure for those immigrants was that they got locked up in an estate, regular interview by detectives of the Kripo and in the end by the Stasi. They lost their possessions to the state, such as their cars. The East Germans were very afraid that they imported problem cases, such as criminals or people in debt.

@@mardiffv.8775 Where possible the East German Foreign Intelligence services used their identity and documents for agents it sent into the West.

@@mardiffv.8775 what, including their clothes as well?

@@liammeech3702 Haha, that is good one. No. there allowed by the East German Authorities to wear their cloths, but I am talking about West Marks and cars that the East Germans took away from them.

@Gefreiter Carter "We considered ourselves the true successor of the Reich and were allowed to keep in some way or form our military doctrin" - You were nothing of the sort. Führen mit Auftrag central to the Wehrmacht success was completely foreign to the centralized-command Russian-led puppet state military forces. You were a German-speaking extension of the Red Army.

Really nice story, its a shame we don’t hear allot about some veterans from lesser known conflicts as they unfortunately grow older. Would love to hear his story for example. Also i was in Dresden (neustadt) for a few weeks keeping company to a very sick friend. Its an incredibly nice and peaceful city. My friend called it and the german saxony the pearl of the east.

Its for your body when you cant say your name man hahaha

@@jelicadujmovic9781 It was an example of american arrogance, but what can be expected from americans?

You should watch the Deutschland 83/86/89 series. It's a TV show revolving around an east german spy in those respective years, each year representing one season of the show. Though the last season certainly suffers in quality, it is entertaining in showing different east german governmental involvement in these years, and weaves historic events into the story. in Deutschland 86, they actually depict the East German involvement in Angola, and South African Apartheid movement. That's when I first heard about their involvement.

@@abderu.6947 Probably the more interesting part of his story would be growing up gay in the DDR

You don't have to be a veteran, or even from the GDR, to think it was ridiculous to describe the Stasi as an extension of the Gestapo.

Fair enough. One "Sicherheitsdienst" lieutenant was interrogated in Finland in 1950. Probably, nothing was found because the Allied Commission had left in 1947. Also, recidivism was unlikely, so he was released. This person is interesting because his photo cannot be found on the internet. Maybe it's in the National Archives or with relatives. Later, he became wealthy as the CEO of the Private Entrepreneurs Insurance Company.

In the early stages of forming the MfS (stasi) it was strictly out of bounds for former gestapo or personnel with an NSDAP background.

@@johnkingeef855 That doesn't surprise me. Of course, it had to be composed strictly of true believers.

@@juniatapark54 They were not really that different when you look at what they did.

Yes during that time, the South African Military was considered top notch effective and capable. Even today, the South African mobile wheeled Howitzers are considered to be amongst the most effective, best in the world.

Pretty sure South Africa lost that war against Angola.

@@dannya1854 I don't really think it's fair to say that. It was ended with negotiations. The South Africans got the Cubans to leave Angola and they let Namibia go independent. Strangely the South African negotiators were supposed to be on the Lockerbie Pan Am flight that got shot down, but they decided to take an earlier flight.

@@dannya1854 Before you say that South Africa lost the war maybe you should have a deeper look at what South Africa wanted to achieve in Angola and maybe that will change your opinion

@@dannya1854 I don't remember the Angolans MPLA walking into South Africa, or that they defeated Unita? It was a stalemate and everybody decided it was too expensive to keep fighting the battle.

They took on an active role in Zimbabwe in the early 80s where they trained the 5th brigade to carry out the Gukurahundi genocide.

Germany got all the blame for imperialism and colonialism. Nobody cares that the british exploited 2/3 of the world.

The Herero and Nama genocide was not done by local troops. Those were losing against the rebelling Herero so Lothar von Trotha was dispatched from Germany, he and his troops did most of the killing including driving all Herero into the desert and placing machine guns at water holes.

Hey Brother! I was B Co 4/502d Feb 89 to Dec 90 then went back Oct 91 to Jun 94 with C Co 6/502nd, went on the Operation Able-Sentry UNPROFOR deployment.

So what was a typical day for the Berlin brigade?

@@SGobuck depended upon if you were doing ceremonies, in the field training, on the range qualifying, Spandau Prison rotation guarding Hess for a month, Clay Headquarters guard detail, Quick Reaction Platoon, there was a myrid of things on a regular timeframe of when you did all of these things.. It was an outstanding assignment.

@@adlerarmory8382 small world! I left in March of 1988, pcs'd stateside to Ft. Myer. I could have extended my tour in Berlin, and didnt then the wall came down in 1989, would have been a great time to have been in Berlin to see that happen.

@@TheVerinen2 you were worth it my friend!

The name was nicked from a 1980s „Der Spiegel“ cover story, although the various training missions were never formally organized into one unit like the actual Afrika Korps.

Yeah, Kongo-Müller.

Absolutely vital point. These foreign scholarships in Warsaw Pact countries created enormous goodwill in Africa - and also networks of affiliation and cooperation. The West should be educating the elite / future leadership of the developing nations as deliberate policy.

There were actually 5 parties in the GDR. The MfS was in no way an extension of Gestapo (unlike the BND, which was basically the Nazi´s Fremde Heere Ost). Original MfS staff were mainly communists who'd been in exile or jail/camps under the Nazis. In other words: the sort of people the Gestapo persecuted (and in many cases tortured and killed).

I first thought you meant the 'North Vietnamese Army', good thing i held my tongue till I watched further on, hah

Privet hohol

@@simonriley4131 north vietnam based GI removers

@@barbarapitenthusiast7103 omegabased freedom fighters and liberators of Cambodia

Low opinion on what? Russia today or USSR? Both are not the same. Also, The comment of yours does not age well. Lol

Would be confusing as hell, half if not all the action that the various countries took that lead to WW2 was in result of WW1, you can't comprehend the motives behind WW2 without previous knowledge of WW1

30-40 years is even too recent. I listened to a history of the Anglo-Zulu war and the events (ie up to 200 years prior to that) and the perspective it showed on modern day events in South Africa was incredible. The problem is, where to stop? We can't all be historians.

The Rhodesians called them terrs. My neighbour in Ireland is Rhodesian and I love listening to his stories over a beer.

They were terrorists. They fought a war of terror.

They were terrorists and shot down civilian airliners shooting the survivors.

They were terrorists. Long live Rhodesia.

That's because they were terrorists.

you’re spot on! The PRC are responsible for ZANU; however the training they provided was very rudimentary and subpar. That’s why the RDF were so capable as a vastly undermanned, yet highly trained defence force. In the end it became a war of attrition and the Rhodesians were just outnumbered too harshly.

@Gefreiter Carter služili su ali su im činovi smanjeni za dva tri stupnja

It was very good

Based on what

@@muharremdemiraydn7766 its rep

@Alexander Capanov got the helmet for 40 bucks at my local pawnshop. The raindrop camo pattern uniform was like 20 bucks for the blouse and pants.

Yes, me too

Pretty much entire eastern block represented. It was amazing SA managed to grind out a stalemate . You should read battle of cuito cuanaavale by Leopold scholz. Very balanced. Another good one is battle of cassinga by mike McWilliams. SWAPO to this day does not ack knowledge it was a military base. Another good one is iron fist from the sea by douw steyn . Gunship ace by AJ Venter is excellent and showed up the absolute corruption by Nigeria during Sierra Leone intervention.

Korrekt, Genosse Kamerad 😉✊

In the west we feel our prime Ministers and presidents are puppets too! (Or Muppets in satire!)

Could you recommend me some titles please? Would love to read more about this matter. Thanks in advance!

I encourage you to share any titles you think are worth reading

@@johnkingeef855 Marginally related, but interesting all the same is Vitaly Naumkin's 2004 "Red Wolves Of "Yemen - The Struggle For Independence" The book is even more interesting than a mere scholarly work, since it's from an anti-West perspective of the, at least ideological, string-pullers. The East-German army & its stasi-kommissarat were also heavily present in South Yemen, before & after the foundation of the Democratic Republic Of Yemen(South Yemen) in 1967, & its war from 1972 on against the Yemen Arab Republic(North Yemen). Not many news seeped out of SY which was the only avowedly-red Arab state. In 1981, without fanfare it was announced that comrade Ali Nasser Mohammed had replaced comrade Abdul Ismail Fatah as sec-gen of the ruling red party. It seemed that under comrade Fatah, the entirely soviet-dominated state had conceded too many fishing rights to the soviets. So comrade Nasser Mohammed replaced him among other reasons. & in January 1986 all red hell broke loose in Aden when comrade Fatah called at the presidential palace to reclaim his throne from comrade Nasser Mohammed. The fighting was so no-holds-barred that one Japanese freighter, upon entering port was fired upon by shore batteries(of indeterminate party) & by a warship(of indeterminate party) when the Nipponese retreated to sea. The trigger-crazy situation couldn't be appeased even by the soviets who had to be evacuated Baltic'45-style by Western ships from a blazing Aden-the-red. The score was edifying : _ comrade Abdul Ismail Fatah the dead winner _ comrade Ali Nasser Mohammed the alive loser The losing party was a sore one since it gathered all its remaining tanks before the soviet embassy for unlimited target practice, before heading for the hills. Comrade Ali Nasser Mohammed took refuge in Ethiopia under the wing of comrade Mengistu Haile Mariam. Until 1990.

That’s the Cold War for yah.

FDJ? we are talking NVA here dude

If I not wrong some of the founders of the Stasi were part of the Gestapo, but there's was heavy NVDK influence.

@@kaianmontenegrotobias750 Erich Mielke was a pre war communist who was wanted for murder of Police officers in Weimar Germany and later fought as a political officer in the Spanish Civil War. East Germany deployed former Nazis but never to the extent of West Germany, and Mielke and his predecessor Zeiker distrusted anyone who hadn't been a staunch Communist before 1933

@@kaianmontenegrotobias750 You are wrong. Totally wrong, in fact.

he mentioned it shortly. But this video was about the east germany interventions not the cuban ones.

@@michaspringphul I meant a specific video on it, but I guess that’s outside the scope of his WWII predominant content.

Try watching the video before criticising me! I said the term 'Africa Korps' was a joke made up by the New York Times. I then explained that 5-10,000 NVA soldiers served in Africa as 'advisors'. Now contradict these facts.

Is there anything one can read about that?

@@juniatapark54 Not really I think. I just know about it trough one of the „soldiers“ that were send down there.

@@m3ats You've been had there.

Love that list! Would certainly watch those. South Africa never had radar coverage over Angola. Know this because my uncle was a senior radar tech at Rundu. What we did do is to intercept chatter from MIG pilots when they took off. Usually laden with bombs which made them heavy. If I remember the MIG-21 was not designed for bombing. This allowed the Mirages to scramble and be guided into the general area of the MIG's. Usually flying at treetop level. To engage the MIG's had to jettison their bombs, usually unarmed. Lost a friend this way when an armed jettisoned bomb fell near their positions. Completely unintentional as the chatter from the pilot had indicated he had no target.

@@JulianBeams Yes! I've heard about this! It is honestly astonishing till this day for me, how they managed to perform their intercepts like that. If im not mistaken (either 1 of these 2) wasn't the 'no radar coverage', more so applicable for the late stages of the war due to range? or, was it in beginning stages of the war, where South Africa was still developing or deploying radar systems Reason i'm saying this is, because ive seen video footage of SADF radar quarters and such. Secondly, the 'Angolan' pilots (Let's be honest, most were Cuban, with Soviet Pilots being debated til this day) but, the 'Red' pilots, also had to fly low level (to avoid the SADF's radar systems). This is how and why, the Impalas were able to, and be credited with some bizarre gun kill victories. But yea regardless of which it is, the facts still stay the same regarding the radio interception and low flying. Oh waw I'm really sorry to hear that about a friend of yours 😓 I have always wondered, if there ever is any 'collateral' (Can't find the right word, my apologies) collateral damage on ground forces, when an Airplane jettisons external fuel tanks, and/or, its payload (bombs).... I guess, the worst of my fears to that question is answered there... That is really unfortunate, sorry.

@@armablign - an old school friend of mine was in the RSA army doing his national service (1985 to 1987) serving as a comms officer (non com) listening in to the Cuban pilots speaking Spanish on open mikes. The Cuban's were confident that no South African could possibly understand them. My friend is the son of Portuguese refugees from Mozambique. The Cuban airbase was under direct observation by the Recces (South African SAS equivalent) who would call in artillery strikes to catch the Migs on the runways. They were very effective.

Africa was better off before the Communistic terrorists started making a mess. The ANC was and will always be a terrorist organization set up by the Communist's to weaken South Africa and make it vulnerable to exploitation by foreign powers.

There's a very interesting RU-vid channel called "Military History Visualized." One of their videos concerns deaths in African post-colonial wars, that is Africans killing Africans. Look for it, it's shocking to say the least. I won't post a link, it'll probably be dropped.

Any travel in west Africa quickly reveals the after effects of Soviet / East German presence. We in the west politely ignore these chronically poor,, corrupt and AK infested regions . My some spent good time working as a medic there and the stories are depressing and acutely horrific. No services, roads, sewage or garbage collection, gross incompetence and graft running the countries. Dr Felton has gone gently on the ruzzian after effects, in his professional and learned manner, I respect that. I don't have to. Don't believe me, go there yourself and you will quickly be disabused of any notions you may have of communist ' clinics and cultural exchange efforts' It's a **it-hole any way you look at these places. Thank you again Mark, wonderful to see 2 of your books I own, are in Hollywood. I hope they are done justice, a bit skeptical about the American treatment, might prefer Netflix or an independent to do the films. Nonetheless it's a tribute to your excellent writing and research ! Best Wishes !!

Back then it was the USSR .

@@als1023 very interesting. I assume then by your comment that the African countries which were aligned with the west, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, must be much better off...

he shared with Algeria's Bumedienne the same forgotten soviet surgical knife in the stomach.

Indeed, both the West German Army and the Former East German Army were merged after the German unification in 1990. Of course this was no overnight processbut required some time. During that period, actually all enlisted men were taken over, yet this did not apply for all of the CO' s and NCO's. German military intelligence had to do quite a job here to distinguish between die hard communists and those who were simply doing a military job. In the end, about one third of all former East German CO's and NCO's got transferred into the Bundeswehr. Criteria were very tight and affecting in particular high ranking officers (Lt. Col. to Gen). The higher in rank, the more likelier you were to be a firm believer in the communist idea and therefore a reliable person to the East German regime.

There is a very good book I recommend. "Requiem for an Army" . It details the process of integrating a rather small number of East German Officers into the Bundeswehr. The thesis of the book is that the East German Army was a true people's army, and very professional. So much in fact, that there was little chance if turning into their own people, thus facilitating the transition dissolution of East Germany. The sad part is that East German officers were often treated with derison by the western counterparts. Moreover, the East German army was truly a new German army, free of Nazi ideology. It took over a decade more to form than the West German Army because they abstained from having WWII officers and had to spent years training new officer corps exclusively from working class backgrounds.

@@cuauhtemoc8350 Actually there were a number of Whermacht Officers and NCO's in the begining era of the East German NVA.

@@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV Yes there were, but they removed as soon as possible. They didn't want them there permanently. It was their policy.

@@cuauhtemoc8350 BETTER than the Bundeschiesse Nancy boys anyday. SEE how the Bundy ladyboys march compared to the NVA?🤣😅😂 ZELENSKY 💅🏻 👠💄👛 loves the Bundy ladyboys.

Nope. It was the GDR. By quite a distance, too.

It's a bit controversial, don't you think?

@@henrykeyter53 Studying history means overcoming controversies

@@filippos13 True. The issue with Cuito is, however, that both sides claimed victory. When one assesses the losses of both sides one would say that the SADF/UNITA coalition won. The MPLA/Cuban/SWAPO side claims they won, however, because the SADF was unable to take Cuito itself, even though the South African aim was to merely prevent the MPLA from reaching Jamba and thus destroying UNITA. Truth is that Cuito, like Cassinga and Smokeshell was a clusterf---

@@henrykeyter53 I think we can all agree that it was a South African tactical victory but a Cuban strategic victory, albeit a short lived one

I think that was a standard state sponsored programmes in the ussr that has carried on into contemporary times by putin and Co in Russia.

A practice that appears to have continued in Russia today. It’s really short sighted, the only thing it accomplishes is the embarrassment of your nation on the global stage, your banning from international competition, and the destruction of your athletes.

just like russia today :D

and integrity nothing

Turinabol was the compound. The only ever Steroid developed for non-medical reasons.

@Vagabond in London Town The Cubans fought all over Africa. Their general performance all over Africa and performance in major battles might make for a good video.

I had it, just close the video and reopen

He wears green boots and he's coming to get you.