The "Fall X" - The Conquest of West-Berlin

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Originally Posted by Skybird

The film was not basing on that excercise. It was mentioned only briefly at the very ending. What they were basing on are doicuments by Mielke and the NVA, stored in a German archive for such stuff.

Most of what was known on this operation so far came from both information by former members of the East German army and based on the Bordkante series of exercises, specifically the one ran in 1986, which according to former East German officers most closely resembled the real operation. The actual operational plans were destroyed before German reunification, or so I heard.

The documentary might might well have been based on newely discovered documents or information that wasn't known until now.