Armeerundschau

The 1956-1990 appearing in the GDR army Rundschau magazine was a magazine of the German Military Press, which later renamed itself in Military Publishing House of the GDR. The approximately 80 to 100 pages booklet ( to 1962 in A4, then A5 size ) had a range of 1.5 million readers with a circulation of up to 340,000 copies ( the first edition had a total of 11,000 copies located ), of which However, only five to six percent of military personnel have been read.

The "ar" was the equivalent of the " People's Army ", the more defensive politically oriented weekly newspaper of the Ministry of National Defense. You should rather represent the army life in an entertaining way, but also took aim at young people and women soldiers.

Despite their relatively high price of a Mark the "ar" mainly because of the (albeit clothed ) Pin-ups among soldiers was popular. In July 1990, the latest edition of the magazine, which had been renamed in the last months of the GDR in subtitles in " The international military magazine" appeared.

Longtime editor in chief was Colonel Karl- Heinz Freitag († 2013).

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