I can't help but wonder whether veterans of the Wehrmacht faced social stigma from the GDR administration, both on the principle of having fought for Nazism and for the enormous prevalence of atrocities among German forces in the East (after all, thinking about a veteran's claim is surely different if there's about an 80% chance they're a war criminal, right?). Did these questions shape their access to services?

I know embarrassingly little about the day to day administrative functions of the GDR and its economy, so I may be thinking about this in entirely the wrong framework.