NVA Officer Passport: Berlin Wall & Prague Uprising
The documents and story shared here are outstanding and most significant for German (passport) history. An account from the inside.
The future lieutenant colonel Klaus Nodes, later married to the GDR actress Irmgard Düren, was a graduate of the Moscow tank academy and a key figure in the planning for the construction of the wall and in the planning of the secret operation “Böhmerwald” to suppress the Prague spring uprising with tanks.
An officer remembers
Klaus Nodes was not surprised by the two “blows against the class enemy”. He was in the loop.
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