Editing Germany

{{Lore}}
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[[File:BG Berlin.png|thumb|The skyline of Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic in 2064, showing the Fernsehturm Berlin television tower, the dome of the Berlin Cathedral and several high-rises built after contemporary times.]]
'''Germany''' is a country in Central Europe which played a central role in the history of [[Relic Technology]] and the events surrounding [[World War Three]], as the origin of the Urkunde-01 relic and the country where [[Persicaria]] and [[Lycoris]] founded [[90WISH]]. Germany was ruled by many forms of governments since its inception during the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, but the governments relevant to [[Girls' Frontline]]'s universe are the [[wikipedia:Nazi Germany|Third Reich]] during [[wikipedia:World War II|World War Two]], the [[wikipedia:West Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] in the west and the [[wikipedia:East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] in the east during the [[wikipedia:Cold War|Cold War]], the reunified [[wikipedia:Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]] starting from 1990, and the new German Democratic Republic after [[World War Three]]. The German cities of [[wikipedia:Bremen|Bremen]] and [[wikipedia:Berlin|Berlin]] are respectively the main stages of chapters [[Dual Randomness]] and [[Mirror Stage]].

==Organizations==
===German Democratic Republic===
The '''German Democratic Republic''' (德意志民主共和国, ''Deutsche Demokratische Republik'') was the official name of East Germany, later current Germany after World War Three, led by the '''[[wikipedia:Volkskammer|Volkskammer]]''' (People's Chamber), and informally by the political elite colloquially called [[wikipedia:Pankow|Pankow]].<ref name=DR43B /> The '''[[wikipedia:Socialist Unity Party of Germany|Socialist Unity Party]]''' (''Sozialistische Einheitspartei'', SE) controls the Volkskammer and is thus a powerful entity in its own right.<ref name=DR43B>{{cite|gfl|dr|House of Cards}}</ref><ref name=DR54 />

The exact administrative situation of the German territory after [[World War Three]] is still hazy and appears to merge aspects of both Cold War-era East and West Germany. [[Gilda Ulrich]] is said to have been born in West Germany in 2029,<ref name=ISO1A4 /> yet the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which was part of West Germany during the Cold War, is also said to be part of East Germany<ref name=DR11B>{{cite|gfl|dr|The Curtain Rises I}}</ref> (this confusion could be due to using “East” and “West” as cardinal directions rather than political entities with no differentiation possible through context). The country is led by a chancellor like in West Germany and Federal Germany,<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|The Curtain Rises II}}</ref> while the East German Volkskammer, controlled by the Socialist Unity Party, is the most important organ of the country (the West German and Federal German Bundestag is never mentioned), and the “post-war unity of the nation” is an important concept for German politicians.<ref name=DR43B /> The 2052 Weihnachtsmärkte Incident is also said to have been a border incident within the country.<ref name=ISO1A4 /> Similarly, the situation of Germany relative to the [[Pan-European Union]] is uncertain. [[Gilda Ulrich]], a prominent member of the PEU, was based in the German city of Bremen.

The largest state-sanctioned television broadcaster in the country is [[wikipedia:Deutscher Fernsehfunk|Deutscher Fernsehfunk]] (abbreviated DFR instead of DFF for unclear reasons), the resurrected Cold War-era state television broadcaster, one branch of which is the Berlin Television Broadcasting where [[Shadowless]] works.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Cretan Liar}}</ref>

===Ministry for State Security===
[[File:Stasi Logo EN.png|450px|right]]
The '''[[wikipedia:Stasi|Ministry for State Security]]''' (国家安全部, ''Ministerium für Staatssicherheit'', MfS), commonly known as the '''Stasi''', was formed in 1950 in [[wikipedia:East Berlin|East Berlin]], dissolved in 1990 during the [[wikipedia:German reunification|German reunification]], and eventually revived along with the German Democratic Republic.

The Stasi is renowned as one of the most effective secret police and intelligence agency in the history of mankind. Using an extensive network of agents, it dealt with political opponents through psychological and direct action tactics and conducted espionage and covert operations abroad through its [[wikipedia:Main Directorate for Reconnaissance|Main Directorate for Reconnaissance]] (''Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung'', HVA), notably headed by [[wikipedia:Markus Wolf|Markus Wolf]]. Moreover, the Stasi maintained close relations, such as intelligence sharing and liaised agents, with their [[wikipedia:Soviet Union|Soviet]] counterparts of the [[wikipedia:KGB|KGB]], and later with the Neo-Soviet [[Bureau of State Security]].

However, the Stasi lost most of its prestige after an undisclosed incident in the decades before the 2060s and fell years behind the technology and techniques of their Neo-Soviet counterparts. Directors changed as frequently as state scandals occurred.<ref name=FP13>{{cite|gfl|fp|E1-3}}</ref> When [[Romy Riefenstahl]] became director of the agency, she launched a recruitment drive of Dolls to make up for the lack of personnel.

Senior agents of the Stasi use a single letter as their codename, based on the legend saying that the first 26 agents of the Stasi all had a different first letter in their name. Modern agents usually choose their letter based on a word instead. [[Light]] wanted to use the letter U, for “Unknown”.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Schrödinger’s Cat}}</ref>

Polizei and the Stasi often butt head during operations.<ref name=DR42B />

====Members====
*Erich Meyer (Vice-Chief)<ref name=DR43B />
*[[Romy Riefenstahl]] (new director)<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|House of Cards}}</ref>
*[[K]] (Senior agent)
*[[J]] (Senior agent)
*[[Q]] (Senior agent)
*[[Light]] (Junior agent)
*Dolls
**[[SP9|Mona]]
**[[Sterling]]
**[[PPQ|Brigitte]]
**[[TF-Q|Dagmar]]
**[[LS26|Edith]]
**[[SCAR-H|Amaris]]<ref>{{cite|gfl|es|E18B}}</ref>

===Polizei===
Law enforcement agencies in Germany are divided into '''[[wikipedia:Federal Police (Germany)|Bundespolizei]]''', the national Federal Police, and '''[[wikipedia:Landespolizei|Landespolizei]]''', the regional State Police. Polizei and the Stasi often butt head during operations.<ref name=DR42B>{{cite|gfl|dr|Spiderweb}}</ref> The '''[[wikipedia: GSG 9|GSG 9]]''' is a famous police tactical unit of Bundespolizei, some members of which were sympathizers of the German Independence Party and the '''[[wikipedia:Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution|Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution]]''' (''Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz'', BfV) in 2064.<ref name=DR54 /> Landespolizei '''[[wikipedia:SEK (Germany)#MEK|Mobile Einsatzkommando]]''' (MEK) attempted to disrupt [[Angelia]]'s operation in the Bremen refugees camp in 2064.<ref name=DR43B />

===German Independence Party===
The '''German Independence Party''' (''Deutsche Unabhängigkeitspartei''), shortened the '''GIP''' (DUP in German), is an influential ultranationalist far-right political party, promoting economic and political reforms focused on developing White and Green Zones, abandoning efforts to administer contaminated areas, and preventing immigration. They were outlawed in the early 2060s for their violent actions, including organized murders in refugees camps of Bremen.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Sweet Dreams Box – Beginning}}</ref> GIP members are also anti-[[Rossartrism]] and proponents of the Volksgemeinschaft concept.<ref name=DR54 /> They use the [[wikipedia:Iron Cross|Iron Cross]], reintroduced as a military decoration by Germany during World War Three, as their insignia since many GIP members are retired veterans of the former Germany,<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Sweet Dreams Box – End}}</ref> including former [[wikipedia:Kommando Spezialkräfte|Kommando Spezialkräfte]] (Special Forces Command, KSK) platoon leaders and the BfV (devolved into a Third Reich restoration group) agents [[Wolfgang Hopps|Franz Schreck]].<ref name=DR54>{{cite|gfl|dr|Infernal Enlightenment IV}}</ref>

==Locations==
[[File:BG Mansion.png|thumb|[[William]]'s former home.]]
[[File:BG Fixed Point BlackArea 3.png|thumb|Avernus in the Dead Sea.]]
[[File:BG Fixed Point tower nyto.png|thumb]]
'''[[wikipedia:Bremen|Bremen]]''' is the capital city of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in northwestern Germany, and the home city of [[Gilda Ulrich]]. Bremen also contains the Flora Botanical Institute, where [[Leone]] worked for [[Paradeus]]. The Berle Orphanage outside Bremen was one of the orphanages participating in child trafficking for Paradeus.

'''[[wikipedia:Berlin|Berlin]]''' is the capital of Germany, sitting in the northeastern part of the country. It is the place where international tensions burst into World War Three in 2045 and one of the best successes in decontamination work,<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Torricelli’s Trumpet III}}</ref> of which the abandoned quarantine wall is the symbol.<ref name=MS15A /> The headquarters of Stasi is located in the city,<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|An Arrow in Flight II}}</ref> probably in their original building of the Lichtenberg district, and [[William]]'s former home was a manor in the (fictional) Neu-Tempelhof district.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Pandora’s Box I}}</ref> In September 2064, the bar “Athena's Owl” in Alt-Berlin<ref name=MS15A>{{cite|gfl|ms|Torricelli’s Trumpet II}}</ref> was used by [[Griffin Lyons]] as his base of operations as the city was targeted by Paradeus in a massive terrorist operation. The Paradeus community of Bohnsdorf is located southeast of Berlin.

'''[[wikipedia:Magdeburg|Magdeburg]]''' is a large city in central Germany, where the Neo-Soviet Army’s External Group Force were based in 2064.<ref>{{cite|gfl|dr|Bridge of Eternity}}</ref>

The '''[[wikipedia:Black Forest|Black Forest]]''' (''Schwarzwald'') is a large forested mountain range in the southwesternmost regions of Germany, which was a military theater during World War Three.<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Light Cone Frame of Reference I}}</ref>

The Königssee lake in Bavaria, near the southeastern border of the country, remained a prize touristic location after World War Three.<ref>{{cite|gfl|[[Marlohe]]'s CONTRIBUTION14 quote}}</ref>

===The Dead Sea and Avernus===
The Dead Sea is a heavily contaminated area near Berlin roughly 54 kilometers in diameter<ref>{{cite|gfl|ss|E3-1}}</ref> centered on a military dumping site used during World War Three.<ref name=ES7>{{cite|gfl|es|E7}}</ref> It is a [[List_of_Locations#Black Zone|Black Zone]] so dangerous that even birds won't fly over it.<ref>{{cite|gfl|fp|E1-8}}</ref> It is considered irrecoverable and the region within it was not included in even the highest-quality maps of the region, making it a perfect hiding spot for Paradeus and its troops immune to radiations.<ref>{{cite|gfl|fp|E2-3}}</ref>

In 2064, [[Paradeus]]' headquarters in Germany was in Avernus, a floating skyscraper located deep into the Dead Sea. Avernus consists of two black metallic towers set on a rock mass floating high above the ground. Due to the extremely poor visibility inside the Dead Sea, even this alien-looking tower has remained concealed from the outside world. Though the towers are connected to the ground by power conduits, the distance is such that climbing them would be difficult and risky.<ref>{{cite|gfl|fp|E3-11}}</ref> The building itself already existed in 2051, and it is where [[Daybreak Squad]] met its end while trying to assassinate “Capita”,<ref name=ES7 /> despite {{enemy name|Bramedb|boss}}'s claim as to Avernus' perfect secrecy.<ref>{{cite|gfl|fp|E4-5}}</ref> As Paradeus' headquarters, it is where [[William]] and {{enemy name|Nemhran|boss}} reside, where [[Angelia]] was imprisoned after her capture, and appears to be the production center of the most powerful [[Nyto]]s, as {{enemy name|RPK-16 (Enemy)|boss|alt=Pandora}} and {{enemy name|Morridow|boss}}'s new forms were created there. One of the towers contains a statue resembling a heavily modified version of the ''Winged Victory of Samothrace'', where Nytos regularly offer prayers.<ref>{{cite|gfl|fp|E1-8}}</ref>

It should be noted that another location called the Dead Sea existed in the Pacific Southwest during [[World War Three]],<ref>{{cite|gfl|ss|E1-2B}}</ref><ref>{{cite|gfl|ss|E1-4B}}</ref> where Avernus or a similar structure was also located.<ref name=ES7 />

==History==
===World War Two===
While Tsarist Russia has been the first nation to study [[Relic Technology]], the Third Reich’s Organization Todt excavated the most important relic site to date in the Nordhausen-Harz mountains near Leipzig at some point during the interwar period. Codenamed Urkunde-01 and nicknamed “First Relic”, the Nazis identified it as a production facility filled with dangerous and mysterious substances. Drilling into crystal capsules, presumably filled with [[Collapse Fluid]], proved disastrous and the area was nearly destroyed by explosions. The infamous Doctor Josef Mengele was particularly interested in the disease caused by the incident, which would later be called [[ELID]], but this avenue of research was shut down by the Reich. After World War Two began, research into Urkunde-01 was shelved but its covert labs were used to house nuclear weapons and V-weapons research programs.

The Soviet Union caught wind of Urkunde-01 when interrogating POWs in 1943, and their Alsos teams quickly moved to secure the First Relic and all on-site intel before US salvage teams, paving the way for the Soviet Union's fast technological development after the war, most of all the Tabasar-B proving grounds that would produce the [[Pike]]s. Moreover, the Soviets captured Mengele, giving them an insight into the dangers of ELID.<ref name=FilesTwo4>{{cite|cf2|part. 4}}</ref><ref>{{cite|bg|Secret Document 2}}</ref> 

===Cold War===
On 1 November 1962, Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic Otto Grotewohl tasked the Ministry for State Security's Bureau of Foreign Intelligence to form a special committee with investigating the Soviet [[Pike|Moron Project]] to ensure the safety of East Germany, being wary of KGB Chairman Vladimir Semichastny's promise to never use it against other socialist countries. A special team from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig would act as technical specialists while the National People’s Army would ensure the secrecy of the project, especially from Soviet allies. The project was headed by Markus Wolf, who was reticent due to his lack of prior work on [[Relic Technology]] and his ongoing foreign intelligence work.

By March 1963, the project was progressing slowly, with the teams suffering casualties when analyzing the remains of Urkunde-01 and the Soviets refusing to share any kind of information. Only by December 1965 did a breakthrough occur through a hint Aleksandr Sakharovsky, director of the KGB’s Foreign Intelligence Bureau, gave to Wolf about the 16th Directory working on ternary logic computers during a meeting in Russia. Electrical and computing specialists were immediately sent to the relic site and by December 19th, electrical signals were found and a long analysis and decryption work began at Leipzig. An electronic surveillance center was established on site and designated Listening Post 90, but Wolf eventually renamed it “Wrack” due to security concerns with the standard listening post nomenclature, and also renamed the First Relic Investigation Working Group to “90Wunsch” (“90Wish”), thus imbuing it with his hopes for the reunification of Germany.

By May 1971, 90Wunsch was no closer to decrypting the signals of the relic, but analysis of its patterns enabled the development of new electronic and radio components that proved useful to counter NATO's electronic warfare. That year, newly named Chairman of the State Council Erich Honecker ordered to cease the exploration of the relic. Wolf later regretted the directive, thinking it had robbed East Germany of the opportunity to build a national economic management network like the Soviet [[OGAS]] to save their economy and prevail over West Germany, but they had still gained an enormous advantage in the Cold War: 90Wunsch had detected and located NATO's Berlin Ground Station, their most powerful surveillance system in Europe.

Built on a mountain nicknamed Der Zauberberg near West Berlin, the Berlin Ground Station could jam or alter the high frequencies used in the Warsaw Pact and even transmit fake orders to their aircraft pilots. 90Wunsch's discovery became the core of the Soviet infiltration of NATO's intelligence system by collaborating with the KGB's radio espionage and counter-espionage directorate. They could now send fake intel and hide their own signals, and 90Wunsch investigated the possibility to relay fake orders back to NATO Command. Over the next 10 years, the West remained oblivious to the extend of East Germany's degrading economic situation, greatly facilitating the reunification of the country in 1985. 90Wunsch itself was disbanded when all Relic-related research was stopped under the [[Relic Arms Reduction Treaty]], its data being vetted by Wolf and handed to [[Mikhail Tsvigun]]. Many members of the group left for the United States, where they contributed to the foundation of the [[United Nations]] Relics Agency.<ref name=FilesTwo3>{{cite|cf2|part. 3}}</ref>

===Collapse===
After the Northern Lights Incident of 2035, ten German states were heavily contaminated: Thuringia, Saxony, Brandenberg, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the East, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hamburg in the North, North Rhine-Westphalia in the West and parts of the Black Forest in the South, causing the German population to flee to the south of the country. Germany's capital was moved from Berlin to Frankfurt, but North and South America's rejection of the refugee housing plan of the European Union in September 2035 meant that the added numbers of Northern Germany and Eastern Europe quickly flooded Western and Southern Europe. Protests by Southern Germans erupted against what they perceived as the invasion of their home, but they were quelled by the government. 

During the German elections of 2037, left-wing parties and the Social Democratic Party (''Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands'', SPD) supported the alliance between the United States and the Neo-Soviet Union rather than the neocolonialist policies gaining traction in Europe to combat overpopulation. However, the alliance was broken the year after, leaving Germany no choice but to take part in the new rush for Africa, and the German government suppressed left-wing parties to silence protests. Some rehabilitation projects of German contaminated areas bore fruits, but by 2039 no large-scale project had been undertaken and living conditions were harsh, meaning that a big part of the returning population were actually East European refugees who had been chased from Southern Germany refugees camps. A divide appeared in the German population, with the Southern Germans supporting external expansionism while Northern Germans called for rehabilitation programs of their lost home and supported left-leaning policies.

[[Lycoris]] joined the Leipzig University as a junior exchange student from the Lomonosov State University of Moscow in late 2040, attracted by its advanced automation department, and was soon after approached by the [[Rossartrism|Rossartrist]] agent [[Griffin Lyons]] posing as a news editor for [[WAVE]]. At the university, he was recruited by [[Persicaria]]<ref name=FilesTwo3 /> into the Bundeswehr Special Technology Development Group<ref name=C132>{{cite|gfl|13-2}}</ref> to produce an advanced automation framework that would enable multiple robots to make complex decisions and work autonomously as a unit, an ambitious project meant to distance Germany from the industry-oriented designs favored by other countries in the race for automation. While studying materials procured by the government, he found 90Wunsch's research and applied it to the project, leading to its success in 2043. Lycoris and Persica also founded [[90WISH]] at Leipzig.<ref name=FilesTwo3 />

===Down spiral to War===
When Ukraine was split in two following a civil war in 2043 and the [[United Nations]] broke down in early 2044 over neocolonialism in Africa and the increasingly aggressive foreign policies of the [[United States]], the German government increasingly feared secessionism from the East German population. When the parliament voted the 2045 budget in September 2044 and slightly favored overseas development, all social democratic parties unanimously demanded the dissolution of the parliament and a new election, and obtained it due to their voting majority, angering the Christian Democratic Union and liberal democrats. Moreover, the social democrats proposed the enactment of the National Emergency Act, suspending the authority of local governments granted by the German Constitution in the Eastern and Northern Länder to promote interventions of the central government in these regions. In November 2044, the act was voted by a slim margin. In a spectacular backfire, all social democrat members of the parliament were expelled on national security concerns permitted by the suspension of the Constitution, and Bundespolizei and Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution agents arrested many of their members, especially in West Germany-based parties.

The purge sparked numerous protests from East Germans and social-democrat parties members, forcing the federal government to enforce a curfew on 11 November. By 13 November, bloody confrontations between protestors and Polizei had occurred in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich and Nuremberg, leaving hundreds injured or dead. On 14 November, the Berlin police raided the Palace of the Republic,<ref>The Confidential Files specifically identify the events as taking place in the Palace of the Republic (''Palast der Republik''), demolished in 2008, instead of the Berlin Palace (''Berliner Schloss'') rebuilt as a replacement in 2020.</ref> viewed as the headquarter of the protests as the seat of the former East German Volkskammer, resulting in hundreds of injuries and close to a hundred deaths. This incident became known as the Palace of the Republic Murders.

On 18 November, East German Bundespolizei units led an organized revolt and took control of key cities before being joined by Bundeswehr garrisons in East and North Germany the next day. On 20 November, direct combat occurred between Bundespolizei and Spezialeinsatzkommandos (SEK) in East Germany. Three days later, every loyalist Bundeswehr, Bundespolizei and SEK units in East Germany had been destroyed, and the SPD announced before the Brandenburg Gate the success of the East German uprising and their break from the Federal Republic of Germany. The European Union formally asked the government to solve their internal situation on 24 November, and on 26 November the loyalist Bundeswehr launched an attack on the Eastern Länder. In two days, the army reached Berlin, but on 30 November they were surrounded by a rebel Bundeswehr armored brigade and two brigades of mechanized infantry, leading to the surrender of the loyalist Bundeswehr units after a three-days battle.

Incapable of settling the matter alone, the government asked rapid-response teams from the European Union for help, but they were again too late: in the second day of the uprising, the SPD had asked the Neo-Soviet Embassy in Berlin for their support in the uprising. Considering that the federal government had overstepped its legal bounds by suspending the constitution the old Soviet Union had agreed to along with the other victors of World War Two, and confident in the ability of East Germany to pull off their uprising after their victory in Berlin, Moscow accepted to intervene. The Baltic Fleet made landfall at Rostock while Neo-Soviet paratroopers dropped into Berlin. On 1 December 2044, Neo-Soviet airborne troops eluded EU radars in Poland and landed at Schönefeld Airport to provide tanks and heavy weapons to the East Germans before the EU rapid-response forces could act. On 7 December, the EU forces entered Berlin without resistance, but found barricades prepared by the Soviet Army on Straße des 17. Juni. The German Civil War had become an international matter.

For the Neo-Soviet, the German Civil War had been an incredible opportunity to expand their sphere of influence westward in retaliation for the European Union's intervention on their turf during the Ukrainian Civil War a year earlier. The conflict dragged on, and after the US became involved, the entire world soon tipped catastrophically into [[World War Three]]<ref name=FilesTwo3 /> on 2 March 2045.<ref name=FilesTwo2 />

===World War Three===
In May 2047, the US military launched a series of invasions into Germany.<ref name=FilesTwo2>{{cite|cf2|Part. 2}}</ref> It might be during this offensive that Captain [[Yegor]] fought in the depth of the Black Forest.<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Light Cone Frame of Reference I}}</ref> In the closing months of 2047, the Neo-Soviet Union held Tripoli and fought advancing German forces at Bir al-Ghanam and Sabratha in Libya.<ref name=FilesTwo5>{{cite|cf2|part. 5}}</ref> By May 2049, the US military had stalled during their attack on Heidelberg and had resorted to guerilla tactics.<ref name=FilesTwo3 /> The Neo-Soviet Paldiski Submarine Base in Estonia stockpiled weaponry to support the advance of their Northern Forces in Germany and Finland.<ref>{{cite|gfl|sc|Confidential Files X}}</ref>

Lycoris had received a letter from the Neo-Soviet embassy asking all expatriates to leave Germany as soon as September 2044. At some point in 2045, presumably before the start of the war, Persicaria was added to the list of technical and research institutes personnel to be relocated on orders from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Both remained in the country, moving their work to the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken,<ref name=FilesTwo3 /> where they met the institute's director Rudolf von Oberstein and his daughter [[Lunasia]].<ref name=C132 /> In January 2049, Persica left the country and Lycoris, knowing the Americans wouldn't let a Russian national enter the West in wartime, returned illegally to the Neo-Soviet Union.<ref name=FilesTwo3 />

===After World War Three===
When World War Three ended in a ceasefire, Germany had been conquered by the Neo-Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic was reinstated, though under a different form ([[Germany#German Democratic Republic|see above]]).<ref name=DR54 /> Internal tensions remained, and a border incident nearly ended in a bloodbath between the population and Neo-Soviet military during the 2052 Weihnachtsmärkte Incident, avoided thanks to the intervention of [[Gilda Ulrich]].<ref name=ISO1A4>{{cite|gfl|iso|Illusory Peace IV}}</ref>

Germans and Neo-Soviets collaborated on a number of matters after the war. In September 2064, the Neo-Soviets and Germans successfully tested a new type of decontamination facility in Berlin and more technological and environmental cooperation projects were planned. Germany also pledged assistance to the Neo-Soviet Union against terrorism in North-Ossetia-Alania.<ref name=MSDRF1>{{cite|gfl|ms|Chapter 1, DRF24 10:00 AM flash news}}</ref> [[Paradeus]] sourced [[Nyto]] subjects from German orphanages, one of which was identified during [[K]]'s investigations in Southern Germany,<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Causality Separating Plane}}</ref> leading him to become a liaised agent to [[Statesec]] in order to investigate the terrorist group. In 2064, K coordinated a Statesec counter-terrorism operation to protect peace talks between the [[Pan-European Union]] and the Neo-Soviets in Belgrade.<ref>{{cite|gfl|iso|Illusory Peace V}}</ref> As the commanding officer of repudiated Statesec agent [[Angelia]], he participated in the operation against Paradeus in the Paldiski Submarine Base in Estonia, and invoked his authority as a Stasi officer to request a air bombing from the Neo-Soviet Air Force.<ref>{{cite|gfl|pl|Tempering I}}</ref>

[[Gilda Ulrich]] and [[Rossartrism|Rossartrist]] Stasi agents later continued to provide resources to Angelia as she launched her independent investigation on Paradeus in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to find the hiding place and identity of Paradeus leader [[William]], arranging fake identities and an air drop into the city for her and the [[Tactical Doll]]s from [[Task Force DEFY]]<ref name=DR11B /> and covering her tracks as she took down Paradeus' allies in the city. By provoking the Bremen refugees camp riots however, Angelia overreached<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Absent}}</ref> and she was captured by rival agents of the Stasi and brought to Berlin for interrogation<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|An Arrow in Flight I}}</ref> before being released thanks to [[Griffin Lyons]],<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Torricelli’s Trumpet III}}</ref> who also brought [[the Commander|the Griffin Commander]] to Berlin to assist Ange in foiling Paradeus' terrorist plans in the city, starting by kidnapping [[Machlian]] from the Paradeus community in Bohnsdorf, near Berlin.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Shoulders of a Griffin III}}</ref> Angelia was however captured and DEFY wiped out when they tried to investigate William's old residence in Berlin's Neu-Tempelhof district.<ref>{{cite|gfl|ms|Pandora’s Box I}}</ref>

==Trivia==
*The emblem of the Stasi in [[Girls' Frontline]] is quite different from its real-world counterpart, which is either a shield with a variant of the flag of the GDR laying on a cavalry saber, or a shield with the name “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit” and an arm presenting a rifle with bayonet, flying a variant of the GDR flag. In the game, the emblem is a small shield with a diagonal stripe, laying on a sword and hammer in a Greek cross, laying on an eagle spreading its wings and claws, laying on another shield, and the name “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit” on a banner at the base. The sword and hammer in a Greek cross is similar to the well-known communist symbol of the hammer and sickle in a saltire cross, but quite different from the national emblem of East Germany, which is a compass laying on a hammer. The use of the eagle with spread wings and claws (''Reichsadler'') as a symbol of Germany dates back to the Holy Roman Empire.
*The name "Sozialistische Deutsche freie Partei" appears in an unused story background from [[Dual Randomness]]. It is unmentioned in the rest of the game.

==Gallery==
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File:BG Dual Randomness Unused.png|The unused "Sozialistische Deutsche freie Partei" document.
File:Stasi Logo.png|CN Stasi logo.
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