In 1951 Germany's first postwar armed forces unit was formed - the Bundesgrenzschutz or Federal Border Guard. Until the formation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, it was effectively Germany's army. Armed and equipped from the old wartime Wehrmacht, the BGS guarded the inner German border between East and West Germany.
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