Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post
The previous missions weren't fighting missions despite some checkpoint shootout, though.

IIRC the Eastern Germans sent advisers to Angola and North Vietnam.
It's an almost completely unpublished chapter of German military history, and I have no details.
Fuchs, found reference to this article in Der Spiegel circa 1980 - Honeckers Afrika-Korps



If there is no free download available from there you can get it here.

Seems to me that at that time there were 1,000 East Germans in Angola and 600 in Mozambique.

Perhaps you can give a short summary of the article as the translation I have seen is poor.