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German Democratic Republic

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noun

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

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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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Seattle Times

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

From New York Times

But it was the 1970s, and no such symbol of Jewish faith could be found where she lived in East Berlin, in the communist German Democratic Republic, or G.D.R.

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A historian turns her eye to the country of her birth in this political history of the German Democratic Republic, which existed from 1949 to 1990.

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