German Democratic Republic

noun

1. Abbreviations: GDR.  DDR. (formerly) the official name of East Germany

Example Sentences

In 1952, after World War II ended and the family found itself living in the newly created German Democratic Republic, East Germany, they all fled to West Germany.

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It’s set in the dying days of the German Democratic Republic, leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Their relationship comes to embody the German Democratic Republic's "crushed idealism" and eventual "dissolution of a whole political system".

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The country she knew, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, remains a crucial setting for most of her striking, precise fiction.

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“Democratic” here means much the same thing as it did when “German Democratic Republic” signified a Communist dictatorship in East Germany, which was anything but a democratic workers’ paradise.

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