East German

adjective

of or relating to the former republic of East Germany or its inhabitants

noun

a native or inhabitant of the former East Germany

Words Nearby East German

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How to use East German in a sentence

So if you were an East German, you could go to Hungary and then could go across to Austria, and from Austria into West Germany.
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They would travel by train, and the trains would pass through Dresden, the East German city closest to Prague.
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Our Western propaganda was in that sense entirely true: the East German régime was indeed hated by those it governed.
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For its part, the East German government spied on him and monitored his scripts.
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The early precedent for forcefully striking down protests makes the peaceful 1989 East German revolution all the more noteworthy.
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He is an undersized, paunchy East German, with hair the color of wet hay, and an extremely pallid complexion.
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