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Princeton's WordNet

  1. East Germany, German Democratic Republicnoun

    a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990

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  1. East Germanynoun

    A former country of Europe between 1949 and 1990, officially called the German Democratic Republic (GDR), capital East Berlin.

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  1. East Germany

    East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʁaːtɪʃə ʁepuˈbliːk] (listen), DDR, pronounced [ˌdeːdeːˈʔɛʁ] (listen)), was a country in Central Europe that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. Commonly viewed as a communist state, it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the surrender of Nazi Germany after World War II, when the Potsdam Agreement established the Soviet occupation zone, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line. The Soviet zone surrounded West Berlin but did not include it and West Berlin remained outside the jurisdiction of the GDR. From 1949 to 1989, East Germany was a part of the Eastern Bloc in the Cold War. Most scholars and academics describe the GDR as a totalitarian dictatorship.The GDR was established in the Soviet-occupied zone of former Nazi Germany, while the Federal Republic of Germany, commonly referred to as West Germany, was established in the three Western US–UK–French occupied zones. A satellite state of the Soviet Union, Soviet occupation authorities began transferring administrative responsibility to German communist leaders in 1948 and the GDR began to function as a state on 7 October 1949, gaining sovereignty from the Soviet Union in 1955, although Soviet forces remained in the country throughout the Cold War. Until 1989, the GDR was governed by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), although other parties nominally participated in its alliance organization, the National Front of the German Democratic Republic. The SED made the teaching of Marxism–Leninism and the Russian language compulsory in schools.The economy was centrally planned and state-owned. Prices of housing, basic goods and services were heavily subsidized and set by central government planners rather than rising and falling through supply and demand. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, it became the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc. Emigration to the West was a significant problem as many of the emigrants were well-educated young people; such emigration weakened the state economically. In response, the government fortified its inner German border and built the Berlin Wall in 1961. Many people attempting to flee were killed by border guards or booby traps such as landmines. Those captured spent long periods of time imprisoned for attempting to escape. In 1951, a referendum in East Germany regarding the remilitarization of Germany was held, with 95% of the population voting in favour.In 1989, numerous social, economic and political forces in the GDR and abroad, one of the most notable being peaceful protests starting in the city of Leipzig, led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the establishment of a government committed to liberalization. The following year, a free and fair election was held and international negotiations led to the signing of the Final Settlement treaty on the status and borders of future-reunited Germany. The GDR ceased to exist when its states ("Länder") joined the Federal Republic of Germany under Article 23 of the Basic Law on 3 October 1990. Several of the GDR's leaders, notably its last communist leader Egon Krenz, were later prosecuted for offenses committed during the GDR times.Geographically, the GDR bordered the Baltic Sea to the north, Poland to the east, Czechoslovakia to the southeast and West Germany to the southwest and west. Internally, the GDR also bordered the Soviet sector of Allied-occupied Berlin, known as East Berlin, which was also administered as the state's de facto capital. It also bordered the three sectors occupied by the United States, United Kingdom and France known collectively as West Berlin. The three sectors occupied by the Western nations were sealed off from the GDR by the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 until it was brought down in 1989.

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  1. east germany

    East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the eastern part of present-day Germany. It was established during the post-World War II period when Germany was split into two countries by the victorious Allied powers. East Germany was the communist state under the influence of the Soviet Union, while West Germany was a democratic state aligned with the West. Its capital was East Berlin. The Berlin Wall, erected in 1961, became a symbol of the division. East Germany was reunified with West Germany in 1990 following the fall of communism and the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of east germany in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of east germany in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of east germany in a Sentence

  1. Steffen Mau:

    Three quarters of the lead positions in east Germany are occupied by people with a west German background.

  2. Angela Merkel:

    There was the Wall just behind the Reichstag, i lived in East Germany.

  3. Sebastian Siegloch:

    A precondition for the success of the app is that it has to be safe and anonymous, and state-of-the-art in terms of the technology, with regard to the latter I am only mildly optimistic as East Germany is lagging behind in terms of digitization compared to other countries.

  4. Matthias Warnig:

    It’s thought the two may have met through their respective secret services in the former East Germany, but the official line is that they only made contact later, in St. Petersburg, after both had changed profession.

  5. Reint Gropp:

    The availability of skilled labor is much lower in east Germany.

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