>>64460547
Why would the Western Allies allow Germany to rearm so soon after WW2? Because Stalin had formed the East German "Alert Police" in 1948.
>(Please don't ask why riot police lived in barracks... or why East Germany needed 80,000 of them... or why they were organized as motorized infantry companies... or why they were commanded by an ex-Wehrmacht general who had been decorated with the Knight's Cross by Hitler personally)