Kasernierte Volkspolizei
In wartime, mobilization of the NVA's reserves would have nearly doubled its strength. GDR authorities also had at their disposal the internal security troops of the Ministry of the Interior (the "Kasernierte Volkspolizei") and the Ministry for State Security (the Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment) along with the 210,000 strong party auxiliary "Combat Groups of the Working Class" ("Kampfgruppen der Arbeiterklasse"), who were available in times of war.