East Berlin
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In Prenzlauer Berg, a former East Berlin neighbourhood that has so far resisted the likes of McDonald's and Starbucks, there are already six branches.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
East Berlin has become the art world’s Shenzhen, a low-paid back office for a global cultural industry.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Prosecutors say that on 29 March 1974 the 38-year-old victim entered the Polish embassy in East Berlin carrying a fake bomb and demanded that officials let him cross the border into West Germany.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023
Barenboim was credited with leading the Staatsoper, which is located in what was communist East Berlin until 1990 and is one of three opera houses in reunited Germany’s capital, to world renown after reunification.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
On January 15, 1990, when news spread in East Berlin that the Stasi had begun to shred its files, a large crowd of protesters rushed into the Stasi headquarters.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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