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German Democratic Republic

name

Etymology

Calque of German Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

Definitions

  1. Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990)

    Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe.

    • Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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