Why did the people in East Germany "play along" with the occupying soviets?
More specifically, why would the Germans form an army that would oppress their own people? to whom the soldiers swore allegiance to? the east Germany soviet party or to the SSSR? For example how could Germans shoot Germans jumping over the Berlin wall?
Also how does a country that just had over 10 year of nazism, transition to communism just like that?
By the end of 1945, Germany industry was effectively destroyed. Most men of fighting age and fitness were either dead or prisoners of war. No side of Germany, east or west, was in a position to resist the will of occupying Allied forces.