East Berlin

American  

noun

1. Berlin3

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East Berlin British  

noun

1. (formerly) the part of Berlin under East German control

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Example Sentences

From the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the home of Health and Human Services, the result of the 1962 principles was a District of Columbia imbued with the light charm of Soviet-era East Berlin.

From The Wall Street Journal

I seem to remember that in the morning in Kyiv, I still had the impression that it smelled a bit like East Berlin just before reunification.

From Washington Post

At the very end of the German posting, I was sitting in East Berlin in 1989 in what had been a long and tedious news conference given by East Germany’s media chief, Günter Schabowski.

From Washington Post

The house, festooned with graffiti condemning patriarchy and the state, was first squatted in 1990, the year of German reunification, when the run-down housing of the former East Berlin attracted flocks of young people to the city.

From Reuters

Civil War reenactors do mock battle under its banner, an East Berlin country music scene gathers with it hung aloft, and even some enthusiasts of German author Karl May, who set his novels in the American West, wave it proudly.

From Salon