East Germany

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noun

a former country in central Europe: created in 1949 from the Soviet zone of occupied Germany established in 1945: reunited with West Germany in 1990. 41,827 sq. mi. (108,333 sq. km). Capital: East Berlin.

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Official name German Democratic Republic .

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How to use East Germany in a sentence

American women have won 103 gold medals in the pool, more than triple the amount of the next best team, East Germany.
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A few years ago, I started saying that these firms know more about me than the Stasi knew about people in East Germany.
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In 1949, the country formally split into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany.
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Although most Westerners assumed such activism could not possibly have been successful in a communist state, by the end of the 1980s, East Germany could realistically lay claim to being one of the most sexually progressive countries on Earth.
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We could see that the two Germanys were … that East Germany was boiling, and that these two countries, East Germany, West Germany, were going to come together.
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Other communist countries that withdrew their films and delegates included East Germany, Cuba, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
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Protests were spreading around cities and towns in East Germany.
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On November 9, the Berlin Wall fell, but demonstrations in East Germany continued until the ﬁrst free elections in March.
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What was most surprising for you when you went to East Germany?
How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin Wall|William O’Connor|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I had been to East Germany and East Berlin before the fall of the wall.
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No sooner were the peasants of North-east Germany converted to Lutheranism than they were from freemen reduced to serfs.
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If half the stories one heard were true there were some pretty ghastly prisons away in South and East Germany.
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In the summer of 1953 came the electrifying news of rioting in East Germany.
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British Dictionary definitions for East Germany

East Germany

noun

a former republic in N central Europe: established in 1949 and declared a sovereign state by the Soviet Union in 1954; Communist regime replaced by a multiparty democracy in 1989; reunited with West Germany in 1990Official name: German Democratic Republic, (Abbreviation) DDR, (Abbreviation) GDR See also Germany

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Cultural definitions for East Germany

East Germany

Former nation in north-central Europe, officially known as the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990, when East and West Germany were reunited. Its capital and largest city was East Berlin.

notes for East Germany

Former Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact nation, established as a republic in 1949; formed out of land in the zone of Germany occupied by the Soviet Union after World War II.

notes for East Germany

The Berlin Wall (see also Berlin Wall) was erected in 1961 to keep East Germans from defecting to the West.

notes for East Germany

Although high for a communist nation, the East German living standard lagged far behind that of western Europe. Popular protests for democracy forced the communist government to open the Berlin Wall in 1989 and allow its citizens to migrate to West Germany. Unable to resist the tide of reform sweeping across communist states, the East German government agreed in 1990 to the reunification of Germany under the leadership of West Germany.