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East Germany
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). : East Berlin.
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 1990 Official nameGerman Democratic RepublicAbbreviationDDRAbbreviationGDR See also 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 .
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Example Sentences
American women have won 103 gold medals in the pool, more than triple the amount of the next best team, East Germany.
A few years ago, I started saying that these firms know more about me than the Stasi knew about people in East Germany.
In 1949, the country formally split into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany.
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.
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.
Other communist countries that withdrew their films and delegates included East Germany, Cuba, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
Protests were spreading around cities and towns in East Germany.
On November 9, the Berlin Wall fell, but demonstrations in East Germany continued until the first free elections in March.
What was most surprising for you when you went to East Germany?
I had been to East Germany and East Berlin before the fall of the wall.
No sooner were the peasants of North-east Germany converted to Lutheranism than they were from freemen reduced to serfs.
If half the stories one heard were true there were some pretty ghastly prisons away in South and East Germany.
In the summer of 1953 came the electrifying news of rioting in East Germany.
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