Part 1 Part I: Background to Crisis Chapter 2 The NVA: The Key to the GDR's Soviet Policy Part 3 Part II: The End of the NVA Chapter 4 The Beginning of the End: Honecker Is Ousted Chapter 5 Krenz Picks Up the Pieces: The NVA Is Depoliticized Chapter 6 Modrow Tries to Salvage Socialism: The Military on the Verge of Collapse Chapter 7 The First Democratically Elected Government: Epplemann Crusades for Two German Armies Part 8 Part III: Integrating the NVA into the Bundeswehr Chapter 9 Integrating NVA Personnel into a Democratic Military: The Machinery Chapter 10 The NVA Professional: Making the Transition Chapter 11 Lessons from the NVA Chapter 12 Appendix 1: Key East German Military Leaders Chapter 13 Apendix 2: Questionnaire Answered by Former NVA Officers Chapter 14 Notes Chapter 15 Index
Dale R. Herspring is University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University.
Dale Herspring has uncovered a fascinating story about the conduct
and collapse of the East German army during both the protest
against the East German government and also the reunification of
Germany.
*Ronald A. Francisco, University of Kansas*
This is a brilliant book, combining scholarly rigor at its best
with compassionate understanding of the complex social problems
caused by the downfall of East Germany's political system and its
military structure. A masterpiece of contemporary historical
writing: carefully researched, thoroughly analyzed, judiciously
concluded, and well-written. Excellent!
*Colonel Hans-Werner Weber, former NVA officer and senior advisor
to the last defense minister of the GDR*
In Requiem for an Army, Dale R. Herspring offers a useful English
summary of the events surrounding the collapse of the East German
military. Professor Herspring contribution is to have identified
the key actors as well as the questions we should ask them to
determine why the NVA permitted a peaceful transition to democracy
and reunification.
*Journal of Conflict Studies*
The remarkable materials assembled in the Herspring volume in the
desintegration of the NVA will make this book the point of
departure for analysis of a military-political event that had no
precedent as of 1989.
*Contemporary Security Policy*
All in all a fascinating account; it is hard to fault the thorough
treatment of the topic. It fills an important gap in the
publications on German unification available in English.
*Political Studies Review*
[Herspring's] book fills important gaps in our understanding of
Germany's unification.
*CHOICE, October 1999*
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