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How to use East Berlin in a sentence

This arrangement lasted until 1978, when the East Berlin police forbade the group to continue meeting.
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The goal was to dig a tunnel underneath East Berlin to tap Soviet phone lines in the early 1950s.
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I had been to East Germany and East Berlin before the fall of the wall.
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No one ever tried to climb the Berlin Wall to escape into East Berlin.
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Kennan put her up in his version of a Russian dacha in a town in Pennsylvania called, of all things, East Berlin.
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The Berlin Wall Focused by Photographers, an exhibition of photojournalists' first images of East Berlin after the wall.
The Art of the Wall|Ana Finel Honigman|November 8, 2009|DAILY BEAST
I was living in East Berlin for weeks in a row and experiencing the grayness of East Berlin.
Ordinary Monsters|Richard Cohen|December 11, 2008|DAILY BEAST
I am going to drive over to East Berlin, and I will take you along, if you would like to go.
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Mr. Trafton was hungry, and quite willing to take dinner at the deacons, instead of waiting till they arrived at East Berlin.
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British Dictionary definitions for East Berlin

East Berlin

noun

(formerly) the part of Berlin under East German control

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