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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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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

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.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Shuttered, too, was the DDR Museum located beneath the hotel, devoted to depicting daily life in the defunct communist German Democratic Republic.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2022

Mac, who had studied in the German Democratic Republic, taught a course in Marxism.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela