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The Deutsche Volkspolizei (DVP, German for "German People's Police"), commonly known as the Volkspolizei or VoPo, was the national uniformed police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1945 to 1990.
By 1950, East Germany, though officially still without an army, was able to muster a well organised and well-armed security force, and with the establishment of the Volkspolizei came the foundations of the future National People's Army.
The East German Volkspolizei (People's Police, or VoPo) were assigned to monitor the streets of East Berlin, some wearing uniforms, others in plain clothes or in the blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth, or FDJ).
- Katharine White
- 2018
Mar 27, 2023 · The paramilitary Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP, “garrisoned people’s police”, later to become the East German army) was formed in July 1952. Aggressive recruiting saw its numbers swell from 90,250 in December 1952 to 113,000 by mid-1953.
The East German Volkspolizei diligently passed on statistical totals of the brain-drain to their Soviet senior partners, who by August 1958 were beginning to show signs of concern that East Berlin was not master of the situation.
The Kasernierte Volkspolizei (English: Barracked People's Police) (KVP) was the precursor to the National People's Army (NVA) in East Germany. [1] Their original headquarters was in Adlershof locality in Berlin, and from 1954 in Strausberg in modern-day Brandenburg.
However, in the immediate aftermath of the German defeat, the new East German 'People's Police' (Volkspolizei) comprised a small, mostly unarmed and largely ineffective force.
