May 1, 1957 East German Military Parade (Newsreel Excerpt)

An excerpt from a West German Newsreel of the May 1st, 1957, International Workers Day Military Parade in East Berlin

The film shows scenes of the National People's Army and Navy marching on Marx-Engels Platz.

The music in the background is called "Sozialistenmarsch"

[MaximusandHistory]

One of the best features of the National People's Army was how it kept the old Reichswehr / Wehrmacht uniforms!

The Cold War was all about competition: Capitalism vs Communism, East vs. West, North vs South, etc.

East and West Germany both competed against each other to legitimize their claims of being the "Real Germany" and so the East German leadership (With approval of the USSR) allowed the National People's Army to inherit the traditions of the previously defeated Wehrmacht in order to present themselves as the Real Germans, as apposed to the West Germans who modeled their armed forces, the Bundeswehr, on the basis of the American Army.

[vitalii]

There is an interesting video on your channel.
But the comments are quite funny, however, as they say in the East: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

[marks_sparks]

00:06 the NVA dropped that Russian/Soviet "present arms on the march" drill quickly enough. I never see it performed in future televised parades.

[Stamsite]

0:05 This is used by the PLA and Hongkong Police today.

[marceloquiroga]

ahi estan los que no se cruzaron para el sector norteamericano, ingles y francés.

[andrew_snv]

0:08 There are yesterday's soldiers of the Wehrmacht or even the SS.

[gunnarvongroppenbruch]

Sprecher:
Hermann Rockmann, 26. 5. 1917 - 16. 8. 1997, vom NWDR, später NDR, Hamburg.
Er spricht auch die Begrüßung der Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage beim "Willkomm-Höft" Schulauer Fährhaus.

[lukasschmidt]

Whats the name of the march, which is plaing after the 7th second in the follow video:

[gogakot]

NVA DDR была последней настоящей немецкой армией, а бундесвер это жалкая пародия на Рейхсвер и Вермахт.USA постарались, превратили бундесвер в жалкую пародию.

[Alpha_Foxtrot-]

I wonder why the volksmarine didnt do the "russian" Present arms during march, but rather the traditional head turn.

[yegorburov]

Пикельхельмы и штальхельмы ( м 40 или м 35) выглядели гораздо привлекательнее. Да и вообще это были самые красивые каски.

[JGD]

Those helmets look ridiculous. Looks like they're wearing cooking woks on their head. Should have kept the classic stahl helm.

[pejman.hasani]

I can never understand how the people of East Germany, with the bad economic situation, dictatorship, Stasi, poverty, and most importantly, the suppression of protests in 1953 by the Russians and the killing of people in that year, did not try to flee to West Germany by the millions, before When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, they had blind prejudice and false hope of improving the future in the land of communist dictators, wrong hope of reforming the dictator's rule, everyone who fled to the West would have a better and happier life.