East Germany

noun

1. 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

1. See Germany
   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

1. 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

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

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 .

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.

Other Words From

• East German adjective noun

Example Sentences

American women have won 103 gold medals in the pool, more than triple the amount of the next best team, East Germany.

From FiveThirtyEight

A few years ago, I started saying that these firms know more about me than the Stasi knew about people in East Germany.

From MIT Technology Review

In 1949, the country formally split into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Ozy

Other communist countries that withdrew their films and delegates included East Germany, Cuba, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

From The Daily Beast

Protests were spreading around cities and towns in East Germany.

From The Daily Beast

On November 9, the Berlin Wall fell, but demonstrations in East Germany continued until the first free elections in March.

From The Daily Beast

What was most surprising for you when you went to East Germany?

From The Daily Beast

I had been to East Germany and East Berlin before the fall of the wall.

From The Daily Beast

No sooner were the peasants of North-east Germany converted to Lutheranism than they were from freemen reduced to serfs.

From Project Gutenberg

If half the stories one heard were true there were some pretty ghastly prisons away in South and East Germany.

From Project Gutenberg

In the summer of 1953 came the electrifying news of rioting in East Germany.

From Project Gutenberg