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An Oath That Remains: Why I Wouldn’t Send My Boys to Ukraine!Reunification didn’t just bury an army, it also buried careers, dreams, and biographies – mine included. From an NVA officer I became a lawyer, now looking at an army whose generals remain silent. 
Two years after reunification, I was drafted into the remnants of the NVA Reconnaissance Battalion AB11 of the 11th Motorized Rifle Division in Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia. If reunification had not happened, I might today be a Major General of the NVA in Eggesin, Western Pomerania: 3,000 soldiers under fire, 300 armored tracked vehicles, a Lada Niva, a hunting ground in the Schorfheide, a dacha on Usedom, studies in Moscow, a divorced wife, and a massive alcohol problem… Things turned out differently, and one of the most powerful European assault armies, the last Prussian army, was dissolved. I completed the ROA career path with the former enemy, the Bundeswehr. Since I knew that, as an East German, I had no chance of ever reaching a general’s position in the Bundeswehr, I did not become a career officer but instead studied law in Greifswald, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. At the time, that was the right decision. Out of about 1,000 generals since 1990, in 35 years only two East Germans have made it to the rank of general. And even one of those is not in the combat troops, but “only” a general physician. And that wasn’t because East Germans were too stupid for a general staff course… We had an ambivalent relationship with our former Russian allies. The Russians never did me any harm. On the contrary, in Neustrelitz we were invited by Russian soldiers and engaged in active barter trade with them. I learned that it is better to live in peace with Russians. Their mentality, their uncivilized savagery, and peasant brutality would make any enemy’s life a living hell. Perhaps due to the absence of East German biographies in the higher ranks of the Bundeswehr, I have so far not heard a single voice from the Ministry of Defense or the general staff advocating military restraint in the current conflict in Ukraine. I do not know exactly whom the Chancellor intends to deploy to Ukraine. As a German officer, I can only advise not to follow such an order. Nor do I know when German generals became so cowardly and remained silent in the face of the Chancellor’s current warmongering. In any case, I also swore an oath to bring my boys home safely – or not to sacrifice them at all. In the Second World War, I lost part of my family. They served as officers against the Russians. I think that’s enough. Not me, not my children, and not East Germans either… Дружба! Dr. Hagen Schaefer
Author: AI-Translation - Dr. Hagen Schaefer | |
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