German Democratic Republic
Britishnoun
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The couple had propaganda posters from the German Democratic Republic above their sofa, perhaps because his now wife, who had been to East Germany, considered it a workers’ mecca.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
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 • Nov. 18, 2025
If you look at the political map now, you will see the exact borders of the former German Democratic Republic.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2025
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.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2023
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
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