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GDR

American  
Or G.D.R.

abbreviation

  1. German Democratic Republic: official name of East Germany.


GDR British  

abbreviation

  1. German Democratic Republic (East Germany; DDR)

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The trainee car mechanic’s view is one that echoes through the streets of towns, cities and villages that once made up the communist GDR.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2024

The SIX Swiss Exchange cited low appetite for Chinese risk exposure amid currently difficult market conditions and the novelty of GDR instruments as factors for the low trading volumes.

From Reuters • Apr. 20, 2023

After hours of interrogation, he acknowledged his homosexuality and signed a “letter of commitment” pledging his support to the “security forces of the GDR in their righteous fight.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2021

After the GDR collapsed in 1989 and Germany reunified, the Neue Wache was changed once again, finally taking on the form and purpose that it has today.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2020

For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau